How much revenue did Artist Life Simulator make?

$27k–$72k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Artist Life Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Artist Life Simulator sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 196 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $27k–$72k after Steam's cut $49k–$111k before Steam's cut; from 196 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 Artist Life Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Artist Life Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–3.5M

best case 8.3M (Slay the Spire)

Games like Artist Life Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–3.5M copies

≈ $9k–$16.5M after Steam's cut

from ~853 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.3M copies, ≈ $43.5M–$116.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 239 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (6 of 8) and Life Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $25.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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