How much revenue did My Life: Pet Vet make?

$2k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My Life: Pet Vet sell?

Q: How many copies did My Life: Pet Vet sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 24 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 My Life: Pet Vet and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including My Life: Pet Vet's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–29k

best case 164k (Calico)

Games like My Life: Pet Vet

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–29k copies

≈ $46k–$305k after Steam's cut

from ~524 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Calico at ≈ 125k–203k copies, ≈ $411k–$1.1M 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 293 reviews in their first month; the range was 20 to 703.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Life Sim (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Simulation, priced around $16. The breakout hits carry Cats + Casual + Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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