How much revenue did Thriving City: Song make?

$438k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Thriving City: Song sell?

Q: How many copies did Thriving City: Song sell?

84k to 136k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 84k–136k; $438k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $796k–$1.8M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Thriving City: Song and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Thriving City: Song's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 159k–1.5M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Thriving City: Song

A typical game among these

≈ 159k–1.5M copies

≈ $1.3M–$25.3M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 675 to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (8 of 8) and Historical (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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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