How much revenue did Shanghai Office Simulator make?

Shanghai Office Simulator is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Shanghai Office Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Shanghai Office Simulator sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 518 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; from 518 reviews (Mostly 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 Shanghai Office Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shanghai Office Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 308k–1.2M

best case 1.6M (Volcano Princess)

Games like Shanghai Office Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 308k–1.2M copies

≈ $4.0M–$11.0M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is JRPG (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Volcano Princess at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Multiple Endings, priced around $11.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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Super Robot Wars 30 2021	Est. copies ≈ 162k–263k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut $4.8M–$11.0M before Steam's cut	$59.99	7k reviews Very Positive	StrategyRPG
Volcano Princess 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut $6.7M–$15.3M before Steam's cut	$10.99	49k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Life SimMultiple Endings
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