How much revenue did Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator make?

$15k–$40k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 219 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$62k before Steam's cut; from 219 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 Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–30k

best case 72k (Gourdlets)

Games like Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–30k copies

≈ $9k–$67k after Steam's cut

from ~277 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Gourdlets at ≈ 55k–89k copies, ≈ $75k–$202k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 46 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 872.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and City Builder (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + City Builder, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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