How much revenue did The Farmer Was Replaced make?

$658k–$1.8M 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?

239k to 389k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 239k–389k; $658k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before Steam's cut; from 10k 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 The Farmer Was Replaced and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Farmer Was Replaced's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 806–7k

best case 50k (Crypto Mining Simulator)

Games like The Farmer Was Replaced

A typical game among these

≈ 806–7k copies

≈ $1k–$13k after Steam's cut

from ~43 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: Crypto Mining Simulator at ≈ 38k–62k copies, ≈ $52k–$140k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 15 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 274.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (7 of 8) and Automation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Idler, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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 52 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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Space Travel Idle 2020	Est. copies ≈ 13k–22k 13x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	540 reviews Mixed	Early AccessCard Battler
HackeRPG 2024	Est. copies ≈ 223–363 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $306–$824 after Steam's cut $556–$1k before Steam's cut	$4.99	9 reviews 9 user reviews	Early AccessProgramming
Automata Empire 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before Steam's cut	$8.99	53 reviews Mixed	AutomationBase-Building
Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $16k–$36k before Steam's cut	$11.99	106 reviews Mixed	Immersive SimEducation
Scripted Land 2025	Est. copies ≈ 99–161 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $272–$732 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before Steam's cut	$9.99	4 reviews 4 user reviews	Simulation Automation
EvoLife 2022	Est. copies ≈ 744–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut	$9.99	30 reviews Positive	IdlerSimulation
Crypto Mining Simulator 2021	Est. copies ≈ 38k–62k 36x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $95k–$216k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Mixed	SimulationIdler
Code Rivals: Robot Programming Battle 2023	Est. copies ≈ 794–1k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$5.99	32 reviews Positive	Puzzle Automation