How much revenue did Exotica: Petshop Simulator make?

$28k–$74k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Exotica: Petshop Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Exotica: Petshop Simulator sell?

13k to 20k copies, based on its 506 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–20k; $28k–$74k after Steam's cut $50k–$114k before the cut; from 506 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 Exotica: Petshop Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Exotica: Petshop Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–146k

best case 175k (The Test: Final Revelation)

Games like Exotica: Petshop Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 32k–146k copies

≈ $98k–$539k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Test: Final Revelation at ≈ 133k–216k copies, ≈ $73k–$196k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 228 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 144 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Tabletop (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $2.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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