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 the cut; from 1k 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 BBQ Simulator: The Squad out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BBQ Simulator: The Squad's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 70k–100k

best case 404k (Hello Kitty Island Adventure)

Games like BBQ Simulator: The Squad

The middle of these games

≈ 70k–100k copies

≈ $565k–$963k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Best case: Hello Kitty Island Adventure at ≈ 308k–501k copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 866 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 252 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 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.
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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