How much revenue did Goat Simulator 3 make?

$3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Goat Simulator 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Goat Simulator 3 sell?

393k to 639k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 393k–639k; $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.4M before the cut; from 16k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Goat Simulator 3 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Goat Simulator 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–13.7M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like Goat Simulator 3

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–13.7M copies

≈ $19.6M–$173.1M after Steam's cut

from ~65k 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: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (8 of 8) and Physics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 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 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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