How much revenue did Yasuke Simulator make?

$97k–$262k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Yasuke Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Yasuke Simulator sell?

51k to 82k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 51k–82k; $97k–$262k after Steam's cut $177k–$403k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Yasuke Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yasuke Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 189k–578k

best case 6.3M (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II)

Games like Yasuke Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 189k–578k copies

≈ $1.4M–$12.8M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II at ≈ 4.8M–7.8M copies, ≈ $79.5M–$213.7M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 219 to 70k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (4 of 8) and Realistic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Open World, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Medieval + Open World + RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2025, and 3 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 79 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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