How much revenue did SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition make?

$3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition sell?

624k to 1.0M copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 624k–1.0M; $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.2M before Steam's cut; from 10k 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 SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 267k–666k

best case 1.7M (Medieval Dynasty)

Games like SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 267k–666k copies

≈ $2.5M–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Medieval Dynasty at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $12.5M–$33.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (5 of 8) and Immersive Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Crafting + Building, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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