How much revenue did Fantasy Map Simulator make?

$234k–$628k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fantasy Map Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Fantasy Map Simulator sell?

106k to 173k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 106k–173k; $234k–$628k after Steam's cut $425k–$966k before the cut; from 4k 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 Fantasy Map Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fantasy Map Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 476k–1.1M

best case 1.8M (WorldBox - God Simulator)

Games like Fantasy Map Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 476k–1.1M copies

≈ $4.0M–$10.6M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: WorldBox - God Simulator at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + God Game, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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