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How many copies did Forest Golf Planner sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut
from 86 reviews (Very 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 Forest Golf Planner and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forest Golf Planner's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–3.1M
best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)
Games like Forest Golf Planner

A typical game among these

≈ 1.8M–3.1M copies

≈ $15.4M–$21.2M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 28 to 69k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Management (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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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