How much revenue did BBQ Simulator: The Squad make?

$30k–$80k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BBQ Simulator: The Squad sell?

Q: How many copies did BBQ Simulator: The Squad sell?

27k to 44k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–44k; $30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$123k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 BBQ Simulator: The Squad and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BBQ Simulator: The Squad's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 70k–100k

best case 408k (Hello Kitty Island Adventure)

Games like BBQ Simulator: The Squad

A typical game among these

≈ 70k–100k copies

≈ $567k–$974k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Best case: Hello Kitty Island Adventure at ≈ 311k–505k copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut. 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 866 reviews in their first month; the range was 252 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Life Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $29. The breakout hits carry Early Access + Multiplayer + Physics; 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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