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How big is Source Filmmaker?

Estimated owners
≈ 2.8M–4.5M
from 44k reviews (Very Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 219k–865k
best case 5.8M (Blender)
Games like Source Filmmaker

The middle of these games

≈ 219k–865k copies

≈ $7.1M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Blender at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Software (6 of 8) and Animation & Modeling (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Animation & Modeling + Software.
The era
The games you compared span 2006 to 2021, and none of them 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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