How much revenue did Primitive Society Simulator make?

$104k–$279k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Primitive Society Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Primitive Society Simulator sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 760 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $104k–$279k after Steam's cut $188k–$429k before Steam's cut; from 760 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 Primitive Society Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Primitive Society Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 81k–92k

best case 264k (Settlement Survival)

Games like Primitive Society Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 81k–92k copies

≈ $705k–$983k 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.

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

Best case: Settlement Survival at ≈ 201k–327k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.0M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 663 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and City Builder (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $21. The breakout hits carry Colony Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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