How much revenue did Oriental Valley make?

$46k–$122k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Oriental Valley sell?

Q: How many copies did Oriental Valley sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 371 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $46k–$122k after Steam's cut $83k–$188k before Steam's cut; from 371 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 Oriental Valley and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Oriental Valley's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 579k–698k

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like Oriental Valley

A typical game among these

≈ 579k–698k copies

≈ $1.7M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~20k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: The Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 951 to 30k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization, priced around $22.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 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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The Test 2020	Est. copies ≈ 499k–810k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $496k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$1.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureSimulation
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The Sims™ 3 2011	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.9M–$32.1M after Steam's cut $21.7M–$49.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	34k reviews Very Positive	Life SimSimulation
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