How much revenue did Hacker life simulator make?

$135–$363 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hacker life simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Hacker life simulator sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $135–$363 after Steam's cut $246–$559 before the cut; from 20 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.5M

best case 3.2M (Supermarket Together)

Games like Hacker life simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–2.5M copies

≈ $12.4M–$19.4M after Steam's cut

from ~51k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Supermarket Together at ≈ 2.4M–4.0M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 28 to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Immersive Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 36 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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