How much revenue did Animal Simulator make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Animal Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Animal Simulator sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 45 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 45 reviews (Mostly Negative)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Animal Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Animal Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13.0M–26.7M

best case 55.6M (Rust)

Games like Animal Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 13.0M–26.7M copies

≈ $226.4M–$361.1M after Steam's cut

from ~416k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Rust at ≈ 42.4M–68.9M copies, ≈ $466.2M–$1253.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Sandbox (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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