How much revenue did Software Inc. make?

$2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Software Inc. sell?

Q: How many copies did Software Inc. sell?

385k to 625k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 385k–625k; $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.1M before Steam's cut; from 8k reviews (Very 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 Software Inc. and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Software Inc.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 225k–1.3M

best case 3.7M (Game Dev Tycoon)

Games like Software Inc.

A typical game among these

≈ 225k–1.3M copies

≈ $2.1M–$7.3M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

All 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Game Dev Tycoon at ≈ 2.9M–4.6M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$21.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 972 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (4 of 4) and Simulation (4 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2026, and 1 of the 4 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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Big Ambitions 2026	Est. copies ≈ 372k–605k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut $4.8M–$11.0M before Steam's cut	$25.99	15k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessManagement
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