How much revenue did Software Inc. make?

$2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Software Inc. sell?

Q: How many copies did Software Inc. sell?

381k to 619k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 381k–619k; $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.0M before the cut; from 8k 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 Software Inc. out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Software Inc.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 224k–1.3M

best case 3.7M (Game Dev Tycoon)

Games like Software Inc.

The middle of these games

≈ 224k–1.3M copies

≈ $2.1M–$6.9M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Game Dev Tycoon at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 972 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (4 of 4) and Simulation (4 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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Big Ambitions 2023	Est. copies ≈ 335k–544k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.9M before the cut	$25.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessManagement
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