How much revenue did Farming Simulator 22 make?

$12.7M–$34.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Farming Simulator 22 sell?

Q: How many copies did Farming Simulator 22 sell?

2.3M to 3.7M copies, based on its 93k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.3M–3.7M; $12.7M–$34.1M after Steam's cut $23.1M–$52.5M before Steam's cut; from 93k 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 Farming Simulator 22 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Farming Simulator 22's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.4M

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Farming Simulator 22

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–2.4M copies

≈ $15.3M–$20.3M after Steam's cut

from ~50k 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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M 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 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Farming Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Life Sim + RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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 52 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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