How much revenue did Grocery Store Simulator make?

$631k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grocery Store Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Grocery Store Simulator sell?

153k to 249k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 153k–249k; $631k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before the cut; from 6k 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 Grocery Store Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grocery Store Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29.0M–31.6M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Grocery Store Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 29.0M–31.6M copies

≈ $114.4M–$191.1M after Steam's cut

from ~663k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (5 of 8) and Crafting (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Building + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2020, 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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