How much revenue did Hand Simulator make?

$1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hand Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Hand Simulator sell?

1.2M to 2.0M copies, based on its 36k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–2.0M; $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.2M before the cut; from 36k 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 Hand Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hand Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–2.8M

best case 12.1M (VRChat)

Games like Hand Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–2.8M copies

≈ $14.8M–$35.2M after Steam's cut

from ~73k 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: VRChat at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 18k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 73k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and VR (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Anime. The breakout hits carry Anime + Memes + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2026, and 1 of your 7 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 43 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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