How much revenue did People Playground make?

$25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did People Playground sell?

Q: How many copies did People Playground sell?

9.2M to 15.0M copies, based on its 321k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9.2M–15.0M; $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut $46.1M–$104.9M before Steam's cut; from 321k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 People Playground and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including People Playground's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–3.6M

best case 7.4M (Battlefield™ 1)

Games like People Playground

A typical game among these

≈ 1.7M–3.6M copies

≈ $16.0M–$25.2M after Steam's cut

from ~62k 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: Battlefield™ 1 at ≈ 5.7M–9.2M copies, ≈ $62.3M–$167.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 58k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (5 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Automobile Sim, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Open World + Automobile Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 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 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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