How much revenue did Placid Plastic Duck Simulator make?

$275k–$740k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Placid Plastic Duck Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Placid Plastic Duck Simulator sell?

503k to 817k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 503k–817k; $275k–$740k after Steam's cut $500k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 20k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Placid Plastic Duck Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Placid Plastic Duck Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 276k–437k

best case 1.6M (My Singing Monsters)

Games like Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 276k–437k copies

≈ $1.7M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Creature Collector (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: My Singing Monsters at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies. 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 485 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Creature Collector (3 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Creature Collector + Simulation. The breakout hits carry Farming Sim + Colony Sim + Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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