How much revenue did Grandfather Simulator make?

$624–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grandfather Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Grandfather Simulator sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 46 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $624–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 46 reviews (Mostly 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 Grandfather Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grandfather Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.5M–6.2M

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Grandfather Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 4.5M–6.2M copies

≈ $31.1M–$41.8M after Steam's cut

from ~77k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Management (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Relaxing + Moddable + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2023, and none of them 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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