How much revenue did Exotica: Petshop Simulator make?

$28k–$74k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Exotica: Petshop Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Exotica: Petshop Simulator sell?

13k to 20k copies, based on its 507 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–20k; $28k–$74k after Steam's cut $50k–$114k before Steam's cut; from 507 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 Exotica: Petshop Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Exotica: Petshop Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 149k–163k

best case 174k (The Test: Final Revelation)

Games like Exotica: Petshop Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 149k–163k copies

≈ $432k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: The Test: Final Revelation at ≈ 133k–216k copies, ≈ $73k–$196k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 228 reviews in their first month; the range was 143 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Tabletop (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $2.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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Blocksworld 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	759 reviews Mixed	SimulationSandbox
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