How much revenue did Scrapping Simulator make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Scrapping Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Scrapping Simulator sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 72 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$26k before the cut; from 72 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Scrapping Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Scrapping Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–5.7M

best case 47.1M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Scrapping Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 4.6M–5.7M copies

≈ $27.2M–$37.0M after Steam's cut

from ~96k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Sandbox (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.9M–58.4M copies, ≈ $49.3M–$132.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (4 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2021, 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 79 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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Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 35.9M–58.4M 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.3M–$132.5M after Steam's cut $89.6M–$203.8M before the cut	$4.99	641k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
Slime Rancher 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.4M–8.8M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.7M–$79.9M after Steam's cut $54.0M–$122.9M before the cut	$19.99	157k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CuteExploration
Trove 2015	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	93k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayOpen World
GRIS 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before the cut	$14.99	96k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulAtmospheric
Planet Coaster 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.9M too small to compare SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $37.2M–$99.9M after Steam's cut $67.6M–$153.7M before the cut	$44.99	72k reviews Very Positive	SimulationBuilding
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.0M–$56.4M after Steam's cut $38.2M–$86.8M before the cut	$19.99	154k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxSimulation
Firewatch 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.7M–$61.1M after Steam's cut $41.3M–$94.0M before the cut	$19.99	99k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAtmospheric
SPORE™ 2008	Est. copies ≈ 4.6M–7.5M too small to compare SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $25.3M–$67.9M after Steam's cut $45.9M–$104.5M before the cut	$19.99	73k reviews Very Positive	God GameOpen World