How much revenue did Tea Party Simulator 2015™ make?

$89k–$240k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tea Party Simulator 2015™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Tea Party Simulator 2015™ sell?

33k to 53k copies, based on its 666 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 33k–53k; $89k–$240k after Steam's cut $162k–$369k before Steam's cut; from 666 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 Tea Party Simulator 2015™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tea Party Simulator 2015™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 724k–810k

best case 5.0M (Totally Accurate Battle Simulator)

Games like Tea Party Simulator 2015™

A typical game among these

≈ 724k–810k copies

≈ $4.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Totally Accurate Battle Simulator at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $21.0M–$56.6M 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 15k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Physics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Strategy + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, 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 70 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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