How much revenue did Recycling Center Simulator make?

$405k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Recycling Center Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Recycling Center Simulator sell?

74k to 120k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74k–120k; $405k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $737k–$1.7M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Recycling Center Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Recycling Center Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–3.1M

best case 10.4M (Schedule I)

Games like Recycling Center Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 2.3M–3.1M copies

≈ $16.5M–$21.2M after Steam's cut

from ~72k 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: Schedule I at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies, ≈ $43.4M–$116.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 60k reviews in their first month; the range was 14k to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Management (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Crime + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 52 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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Schedule I 2025	Est. copies ≈ 7.9M–12.8M 4.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $43.4M–$116.6M after Steam's cut $78.8M–$179.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	318k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Simulation Co-op
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