How much revenue did Flatinside Simulator make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flatinside Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Flatinside Simulator sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 79 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before the cut; from 79 reviews (Mixed)

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 Flatinside Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Flatinside Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38k–312k

best case 1.7M (My Time at Portia)

Games like Flatinside Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 38k–312k copies

≈ $193k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: My Time at Portia at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.5M–$28.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 315 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Life Sim (8 of 8) and Open World (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Open World, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 3 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 43 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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Weed Shop 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 31k–51k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $86k–$230k after Steam's cut $156k–$354k before the cut	$9.99	906 reviews Very Positive	FPS Immersive Sim
Nobody - The Turnaround 2022	Est. copies ≈ 355k–576k 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	14k reviews Mixed	Early AccessLife Sim
My Time at Portia 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.5M–$28.3M after Steam's cut $19.1M–$43.5M before the cut	$29.99	44k reviews Very Positive	Life SimRPG
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The Witch of Fern Island 2024	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $156k–$419k after Steam's cut $284k–$645k before the cut	$24.99	915 reviews Mixed	AdventureLife Sim
Denizen 2024	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $124k–$334k after Steam's cut $226k–$513k before the cut	$19.99	910 reviews Mostly Positive	Life SimRPG
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