How much revenue did SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition make?

$3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition sell?

621k to 1.0M copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 621k–1.0M; $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.1M before the cut; from 10k 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 SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 266k–659k

best case 1.7M (Medieval Dynasty)

Games like SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 266k–659k copies

≈ $2.5M–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Medieval Dynasty at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (5 of 8) and Immersive Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Crafting + Building, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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