How much revenue did Trainee Death Simulator make?

$82k–$220k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Trainee Death Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Trainee Death Simulator sell?

50k to 81k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50k–81k; $82k–$220k after Steam's cut $149k–$338k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Very 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 Trainee Death Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Trainee Death Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.2M

best case 6.5M (Balatro)

Games like Trainee Death Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–2.2M copies

≈ $10.2M–$16.2M after Steam's cut

from ~47k 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.

Best case: Balatro at ≈ 4.9M–8.0M copies, ≈ $20.3M–$54.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Game (5 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Roguelike Deckbuilder + Rogue-like + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 2 of your 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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