How much revenue did JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator make?

$48k–$128k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 389 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $48k–$128k after Steam's cut $87k–$197k before the cut; from 389 reviews (Mostly 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 JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 254k–316k

best case 309k (while True: learn())

Games like JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 254k–316k copies

≈ $1.4M–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: while True: learn() at ≈ 235k–382k copies, ≈ $841k–$2.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Programming (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming + Simulation, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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