How much revenue did Barbershop Simulator VR make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Barbershop Simulator VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Barbershop Simulator VR sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 88 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $16k–$37k before Steam's cut; from 88 reviews (Mostly 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 Barbershop Simulator VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Barbershop Simulator VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–5.5M

best case 6.4M (Saints Row IV: Re-Elected)

Games like Barbershop Simulator VR

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–5.5M copies

≈ $43k–$29.2M after Steam's cut

from ~30k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Saints Row IV: Re-Elected at ≈ 4.9M–8.0M copies, ≈ $27.0M–$72.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 112 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (5 of 8) and Cozy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Comedy, priced around $20.
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 79 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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