How much revenue did Forest Factory Simulator make?

$571–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Forest Factory Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Forest Factory Simulator sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $571–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 21 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 Forest Factory Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forest Factory Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–20k

best case 146k (BOOK OF HOURS)

Games like Forest Factory Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–20k copies

≈ $39k–$67k after Steam's cut

from ~534 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: BOOK OF HOURS at ≈ 111k–181k copies, ≈ $764k–$2.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 274 reviews in their first month; the range was 58 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Life Sim (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Card Game; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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