How much revenue did Blacksmith Simulator make?

$8k–$21k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Blacksmith Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Blacksmith Simulator sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 73 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$33k before Steam's cut; from 73 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Blacksmith Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Blacksmith Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 149k–735k

best case 1.7M (Medieval Dynasty)

Games like Blacksmith Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 149k–735k copies

≈ $1.0M–$6.5M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Medieval Dynasty at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $12.5M–$33.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 532 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Immersive Sim (6 of 8) and Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Crafting + Building, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 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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