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How many copies did The Sandwich Making Experience sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 50–81
$83–$221 after Steam's cut $150–$340 before Steam's cut
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 The Sandwich Making Experience and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Sandwich Making Experience's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–10.1M
best case 105.1M (Garry's Mod)
Games like The Sandwich Making Experience

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–10.1M copies

≈ $18.2M–$103.7M after Steam's cut

from ~102k 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: Garry's Mod at ≈ 80.0M–130.1M copies, ≈ $219.9M–$591.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 35k reviews in their first month; the range was 11k to 122k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Sandbox (8 of 8) and Physics (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2006 to 2026, 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 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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