How much revenue did Gold Mining Simulator make?

$3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gold Mining Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Gold Mining Simulator sell?

563k to 915k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 563k–915k; $3.1M–$8.3M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.8M before the cut; from 16k 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 Gold Mining Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gold Mining Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 774k–934k

best case 1.7M (My Time at Portia)

Games like Gold Mining Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 774k–934k copies

≈ $5.8M–$9.8M after Steam's cut

from ~27k 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: My Time at Portia at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.5M–$28.3M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Farming Sim (5 of 8) and Life Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Open World, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Adventure + Open World + Casual; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 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 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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