How much revenue did Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation make?

$9k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation sell?

Q: How many copies did Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 106 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $16k–$36k before Steam's cut; from 106 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 Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 649k–2.0M

best case 4.5M (House Flipper)

Games like Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation

A typical game among these

≈ 649k–2.0M copies

≈ $9.3M–$16.3M after Steam's cut

from ~30k 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: House Flipper at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $23.4M–$63.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Design & Illustration, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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