How much revenue did TV Studio Story make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TV Studio Story sell?

Q: How many copies did TV Studio Story sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 112 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before the cut; from 112 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 TV Studio Story out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TV Studio Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–33k

best case 68k (East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance)

Games like TV Studio Story

The middle of these games

≈ 17k–33k copies

≈ $54k–$102k after Steam's cut

from ~640 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance at ≈ 52k–84k copies, ≈ $43k–$115k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 173 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 70 to 842.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Life Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Trading, priced around $3.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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