How much revenue did Mini-Market Simulator VR make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mini-Market Simulator VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Mini-Market Simulator VR sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$17k before Steam's cut; from 41 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 Mini-Market Simulator VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mini-Market Simulator VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–8.2M

best case 12.2M (VRChat)

Games like Mini-Market Simulator VR

A typical game among these

≈ 2.8M–8.2M copies

≈ $33.6M–$64.8M after Steam's cut

from ~85k 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.

Best case: VRChat at ≈ 9.3M–15.1M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (6 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Anime.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of the 7 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 70 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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