How much revenue did TV Studio Story make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TV Studio Story sell?

Q: How many copies did TV Studio Story sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 116 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before Steam's cut; from 116 reviews (Very 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 TV Studio Story and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TV Studio Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–34k

best case 68k (East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance)

Games like TV Studio Story

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–34k copies

≈ $54k–$103k after Steam's cut

from ~647 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance at ≈ 52k–85k copies, ≈ $43k–$115k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 172 reviews in their first month; the range was 70 to 842.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Life Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Trading, priced around $3.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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