How much revenue did Rock Star Life Simulator make?

$46k–$123k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rock Star Life Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Rock Star Life Simulator sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 538 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $46k–$123k after Steam's cut $83k–$190k before the cut; from 538 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 Rock Star Life Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rock Star Life Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–4.6M

best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Rock Star Life Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–4.6M copies

≈ $7.3M–$22.3M after Steam's cut

from ~83k 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.7M–58.0M copies, ≈ $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 93 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 11k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Music (7 of 8) and Rhythm (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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