How much revenue did Boxing Simulator make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Boxing Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Boxing Simulator sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 81 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut; from 81 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 Boxing Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Boxing Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–5.3M

best case 12.2M (VRChat)

Games like Boxing Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 2.3M–5.3M copies

≈ $9.5M–$26.5M after Steam's cut

from ~86k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Racing (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (3 of 8) and Automobile Sim (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Anime.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, and none of them 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 43 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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VRChat 2017	Est. copies ≈ 9.3M–15.1M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	269k reviews Mostly Positive	VRFree to Play
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.4M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	203k reviews Very Positive	HuntingOpen World
Rec Room 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	84k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayVR
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
CarX Drift Racing Online 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $14.4M–$38.6M after Steam's cut $26.1M–$59.4M before Steam's cut	$16.99	89k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RacingPhysics
Golf It! 2023	Est. copies ≈ 772k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before Steam's cut	$8.99	31k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerMini Golf
Wreckfest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.4M–$28.0M after Steam's cut $19.0M–$43.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	42k reviews Very Positive	RacingDestruction
The Crew™ 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $25.0M–$67.2M after Steam's cut $45.5M–$103.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	100k reviews Mostly Positive	RacingOpen World