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 Steam's cut; from 468 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 Dating Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dating Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 139k–243k

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like Dating Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 139k–243k copies

≈ $445k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

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

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 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.
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 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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