How much revenue did Farming Simulator 17 make?

$4.5M–$12.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Farming Simulator 17 sell?

Q: How many copies did Farming Simulator 17 sell?

1.1M to 1.8M copies, based on its 26k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.8M; $4.5M–$12.0M after Steam's cut $8.1M–$18.4M before Steam's cut; from 26k 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 Farming Simulator 17 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Farming Simulator 17's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–68k

best case 3.0M (Farming Simulator 19)

Games like Farming Simulator 17

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–68k copies

≈ $363k–$792k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

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

Best case: Farming Simulator 19 at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $11.5M–$30.9M 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 869 reviews in their first month; the range was 85 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Realistic (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $24. The breakout hits carry Open World + Multiplayer + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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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