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How many copies did Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 31k–50k
$168k–$453k after Steam's cut $306k–$696k 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.

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We left Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.3M–9.0M
best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)
Games like Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

The middle of these games

≈ 6.3M–9.0M copies

≈ $53.6M–$69.5M after Steam's cut

from ~162k 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Driving + Transportation + Automobile Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.
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 79 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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