How much revenue did Metro Sim Hustle make?

$27k–$73k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Metro Sim Hustle sell?

Q: How many copies did Metro Sim Hustle sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 397 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$112k before the cut; from 397 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 Metro Sim Hustle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Metro Sim Hustle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 413k–839k

best case 1.7M (My Time at Portia)

Games like Metro Sim Hustle

The middle of these games

≈ 413k–839k copies

≈ $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Life Sim (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Open World, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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