How much revenue did The Good Life make?

$66k–$178k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Good Life sell?

Q: How many copies did The Good Life sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 323 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $66k–$178k after Steam's cut $120k–$273k before Steam's cut; from 323 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 The Good Life and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Good Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–179k

best case 655k (The Test)

Games like The Good Life

A typical game among these

≈ 27k–179k copies

≈ $119k–$343k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Simulation (4 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: The Test at ≈ 499k–810k copies, ≈ $273k–$734k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 350 reviews in their first month; the range was 48 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choose Your Own Adventure + Simulation, priced around $2.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, 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 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
The Test 2020	Est. copies ≈ 499k–810k 14x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $496k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$1.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureSimulation
On Your Tail 2024	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before Steam's cut	$19.99	415 reviews Very Positive	FishingDetective
Harvest Island: Beginnings 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	138 reviews Mostly Positive	Farming SimFarming
The Test: Final Revelation 2020	Est. copies ≈ 133k–216k 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $73k–$196k after Steam's cut $132k–$301k before Steam's cut	$1.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationChoose Your Own Adventure
The Test: Hypothesis Rising 2020	Est. copies ≈ 147k–239k 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $80k–$216k after Steam's cut $146k–$332k before Steam's cut	$1.99	6k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationMultiple Endings
Alchemy Garden 2022	Est. copies ≈ 27k–43k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $51k–$138k after Steam's cut $93k–$212k before Steam's cut	$6.99	1k reviews Mixed	RelaxingCute
Obenseuer 2018	Est. copies ≈ 56k–91k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $309k–$831k after Steam's cut $562k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	IndieSurvival
Hard Time III 2024	Est. copies ≈ 24k–39k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $99k–$265k after Steam's cut $179k–$408k before Steam's cut	$14.99	964 reviews Very Positive	CrimeSurvival