How much revenue did The Farmer Was Replaced make?

$584k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Farmer Was Replaced sell?

Q: How many copies did The Farmer Was Replaced sell?

213k to 346k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 213k–346k; $584k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Farmer Was Replaced out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Farmer Was Replaced's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 772–7k

best case 50k (Crypto Mining Simulator)

The Idler genre

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit. A niche genre: plan for a small audience.

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

A typical game

≈ 772–7k copies

≈ $1k–$13k after Steam's cut

from ~42 reviews

Best case

≈ 38k–61k copies

Crypto Mining Simulator · ≈ $52k–$139k after Steam's cut

The genre you'd be entering

The launch: The games that made it here had roughly 2 to 274 reviews in their first month.; Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (7 of 8) and Automation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Idler, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, a genre with a long track record.

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count.

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