How much revenue did Youtubers Life make?

$2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Youtubers Life sell?

Q: How many copies did Youtubers Life sell?

530k to 862k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 530k–862k; $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before the cut; from 15k 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 Youtubers Life out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Youtubers Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–1.7M

best case 4.7M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Youtubers Life

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–1.7M copies

≈ $11.2M–$13.1M after Steam's cut

from ~47k 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.

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

Best case: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.8M copies, ≈ $48.8M–$131.2M 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 17k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Economy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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