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How many copies did Forest Golf Planner sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before the cut
from 84 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 Forest Golf Planner out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forest Golf Planner's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–3.1M
best case 56.5M (Stardew Valley)
Games like Forest Golf Planner

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–3.1M copies

≈ $15.4M–$21.1M after Steam's cut

from ~68k 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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.0M–69.9M copies, ≈ $177.4M–$476.9M after Steam's cut.

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 (8 of 8) and Management (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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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