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How many copies did Elon Simulator - Spend Like A Trillionaire sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 223–363
$61–$164 after Steam's cut $110–$252 before Steam's cut
from 9 reviews (9 user reviews)
Only 9 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 Elon Simulator - Spend Like A Trillionaire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Elon Simulator - Spend Like A Trillionaire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 50k–353k
best case 2.7M (Supermarket Simulator)
Games like Elon Simulator - Spend Like A Trillionaire

A typical game among these

≈ 50k–353k copies

≈ $265k–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Supermarket Simulator at ≈ 2.1M–3.4M copies, ≈ $11.5M–$30.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 252 to 69k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Immersive Sim (6 of 8) and Capitalism (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped
4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.
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 38 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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