How much revenue did Bizarre Mushroom Cycle Simulator make?

$597–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bizarre Mushroom Cycle Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Bizarre Mushroom Cycle Simulator sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 44 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $597–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 44 reviews (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 Bizarre Mushroom Cycle Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bizarre Mushroom Cycle Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 746k–1.6M

best case 12.1M (People Playground)

Games like Bizarre Mushroom Cycle Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 746k–1.6M copies

≈ $1.9M–$6.0M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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: People Playground at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 24k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Moddable + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, 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 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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