How much revenue did HR Simulator make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HR Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did HR Simulator sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 49 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 49 reviews (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 HR Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HR Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 54k–123k

best case 221k (Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game)

Games like HR Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 54k–123k copies

≈ $212k–$812k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game at ≈ 168k–274k copies, ≈ $463k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 477 reviews in their first month; the range was 49 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Time Management (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Time Management, priced around $10.
When they shipped: Only 3 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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