How much revenue did Rock Star Life Simulator make?

$46k–$124k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rock Star Life Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Rock Star Life Simulator sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 540 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $46k–$124k after Steam's cut $84k–$190k before Steam's cut; from 540 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 Rock Star Life Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rock Star Life Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–4.6M

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Rock Star Life Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 2.9M–4.6M copies

≈ $7.3M–$22.3M after Steam's cut

from ~84k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 93 reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 11k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Music (7 of 8) and Rhythm (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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 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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Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 36.2M–58.9M 7.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut $90.4M–$205.7M before Steam's cut	$4.99	647k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
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