How much revenue did The Farmer Was Replaced make?

$623k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Farmer Was Replaced sell?

Q: How many copies did The Farmer Was Replaced sell?

227k to 369k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 227k–369k; $623k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 The Farmer Was Replaced out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Farmer Was Replaced's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 806–7k

best case 50k (Crypto Mining Simulator)

Games like The Farmer Was Replaced

The middle of these games

≈ 806–7k copies

≈ $1k–$13k after Steam's cut

from ~42 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Crypto Mining Simulator at ≈ 38k–62k copies, ≈ $52k–$140k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 15 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 274.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (7 of 8) and Automation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Idler, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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 52 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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