How much revenue did Hacker life simulator make?

$128–$345 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hacker life simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Hacker life simulator sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $128–$345 after Steam's cut $233–$531 before Steam's cut; from 19 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 Hacker life simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hacker life simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–2.6M

best case 3.3M (Supermarket Together)

Games like Hacker life simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 1.7M–2.6M copies

≈ $12.8M–$19.4M after Steam's cut

from ~52k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Supermarket Together at ≈ 2.5M–4.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 28 to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Immersive Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 36 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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Supermarket Together 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.0M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	100k reviews Very Positive	SimulationOnline Co-Op
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TCG Card Shop Simulator 2026	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	51k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Simulation Management
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