How much revenue did Youtubers Life 3 make?

$68k–$183k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Youtubers Life 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Youtubers Life 3 sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 500 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $68k–$183k after Steam's cut $124k–$282k before Steam's cut; from 500 reviews (Mixed)

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 Youtubers Life 3 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Youtubers Life 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 906k–1.1M

best case 2.9M (The Sims™ 3)

Games like Youtubers Life 3

A typical game among these

≈ 906k–1.1M copies

≈ $12.5M–$16.7M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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: The Sims™ 3 at ≈ 2.2M–3.5M copies, ≈ $11.9M–$32.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 57 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Life Sim (7 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Simulation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 1 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 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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