How much revenue did AdvertCity make?

$6k–$16k 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 91 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before the cut; from 91 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left AdvertCity out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AdvertCity's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 80k–12.4M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like AdvertCity

The middle of these games

≈ 80k–12.4M copies

≈ $20.4M–$185.2M after Steam's cut

from ~121k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Management (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2026, and 3 of your 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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