How much revenue did Dating Simulator make?

$16k–$43k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dating Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Dating Simulator sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 468 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before the cut; from 468 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 139k–241k

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like Dating Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 139k–241k copies

≈ $446k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

Best case: The Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 803 to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dating Sim (5 of 8) and Romance (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Immersive Sim, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Life Sim + Character Customization; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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