How much revenue did Grandfather Simulator make?

$584–$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 43 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $584–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut; from 43 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 Grandfather Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grandfather Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.5M–6.2M

best case 56.6M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Grandfather Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 4.5M–6.2M copies

≈ $31.0M–$41.7M after Steam's cut

from ~77k 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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.2M–70.1M copies, ≈ $177.9M–$478.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 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.
The era: The games you compared 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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