How much revenue did AdvertCity make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did AdvertCity sell?

Q: How many copies did AdvertCity sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 92 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut; from 92 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 AdvertCity and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AdvertCity's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 82k–12.4M

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like AdvertCity

A typical game among these

≈ 82k–12.4M copies

≈ $20.6M–$184.6M after Steam's cut

from ~121k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.7M–97.0M copies, ≈ $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Management (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2026, and 3 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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