How much revenue did My Recycling Center make?

$65k–$176k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My Recycling Center sell?

Q: How many copies did My Recycling Center sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 640 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $65k–$176k after Steam's cut $119k–$271k before Steam's cut; from 640 reviews (Mixed)

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 My Recycling Center and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including My Recycling Center's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.9M

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like My Recycling Center

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–2.9M copies

≈ $13.6M–$20.1M after Steam's cut

from ~63k 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: The Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the range was 951 to 73k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Immersive Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 36 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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