How much revenue did Farming Simulator 15 make?

$3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Farming Simulator 15 sell?

Q: How many copies did Farming Simulator 15 sell?

888k to 1.4M copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 888k–1.4M; $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before the cut; from 16k 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 Farming Simulator 15 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Farming Simulator 15's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–68k

best case 3.0M (Farming Simulator 19)

Games like Farming Simulator 15

The middle of these games

≈ 32k–68k copies

≈ $363k–$782k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

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

Best case: Farming Simulator 19 at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $11.5M–$30.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 869 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 85 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Realistic (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Realistic, priced around $24. The breakout hits carry Open World + Multiplayer + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 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 52 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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Farming Simulator 17 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 18x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.4M–$12.0M after Steam's cut $8.1M–$18.4M before the cut	$14.99	26k reviews Very Positive	Farming Sim Simulation
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