How much revenue did Fantasy Map Simulator make?

$237k–$638k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fantasy Map Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Fantasy Map Simulator sell?

108k to 176k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 108k–176k; $237k–$638k after Steam's cut $432k–$982k before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Fantasy Map Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fantasy Map Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 478k–1.2M

best case 1.9M (WorldBox - God Simulator)

Games like Fantasy Map Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 478k–1.2M copies

≈ $4.0M–$10.7M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: WorldBox - God Simulator at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$20.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + God Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 2 of the 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 61 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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