How much revenue did Timeflow – Life Sim make?

$194k–$520k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Timeflow – Life Sim sell?

Q: How many copies did Timeflow – Life Sim sell?

47k to 76k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 47k–76k; $194k–$520k after Steam's cut $352k–$800k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Timeflow – Life Sim and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Timeflow – Life Sim's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 74k–179k

best case 489k (Big Ambitions)

Games like Timeflow – Life Sim

A typical game among these

≈ 74k–179k copies

≈ $452k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Big Ambitions at ≈ 372k–605k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 281 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Economy (7 of 8) and Life Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Economy, priced around $26.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2026, and 2 of the 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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