How much revenue did Forest Factory Simulator make?

$571–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Forest Factory Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Forest Factory Simulator sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $571–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut; from 21 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 Forest Factory Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forest Factory Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–20k

best case 145k (BOOK OF HOURS)

Games like Forest Factory Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 17k–20k copies

≈ $39k–$66k after Steam's cut

from ~534 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: BOOK OF HOURS at ≈ 110k–179k copies, ≈ $758k–$2.0M 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 274 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 58 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Life Sim (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Card Game; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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