How much revenue did The Coin Game make?

$810k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Coin Game sell?

Q: How many copies did The Coin Game sell?

147k to 239k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 147k–239k; $810k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut; from 6k 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 The Coin Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Coin Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–152k

best case 429k (Internet Cafe Simulator 2)

Games like The Coin Game

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–152k copies

≈ $13k–$845k after Steam's cut

from ~622 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: Internet Cafe Simulator 2 at ≈ 327k–532k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 61 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 3k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Life Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, and 3 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 61 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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