How much revenue did Movies Tycoon make?

$111k–$300k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Movies Tycoon sell?

Q: How many copies did Movies Tycoon sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 545 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $111k–$300k after Steam's cut $203k–$461k before the cut; from 545 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Movies Tycoon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Movies Tycoon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–3.0M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Movies Tycoon

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies

≈ $13.4M–$26.4M after Steam's cut

from ~49k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.3M–23.2M copies, ≈ $117.6M–$316.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 24k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $37.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 3 of your 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 79 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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