How much revenue did Macro Data Refinement Simulator make?

$612–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Macro Data Refinement Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Macro Data Refinement Simulator sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $612–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 18 reviews (Mostly 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 Macro Data Refinement Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Macro Data Refinement Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–5.0M

best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)

Games like Macro Data Refinement Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–5.0M copies

≈ $14.1M–$32.1M after Steam's cut

from ~67k 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: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 34k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, 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 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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