How much revenue did Messy Room Simulator make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Messy Room Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Messy Room Simulator sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 45 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 45 reviews (Mixed)

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 Messy Room Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Messy Room Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–28k

best case 37k (Rise of Gun)

Games like Messy Room Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–28k copies

≈ $13k–$131k after Steam's cut

from ~293 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Rise of Gun at ≈ 28k–46k copies, ≈ $101k–$271k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 142 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 563.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Life Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Simulation, priced around $13.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 43 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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