How much revenue did Hunting Simulator make?

Hunting Simulator is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Hunting Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Hunting Simulator sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 434 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; from 434 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 Hunting Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hunting Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 382k–4.4M

best case 9.2M (theHunter: Call of the Wild™)

Games like Hunting Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 382k–4.4M copies

≈ $4.3M–$12.7M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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.

Best case: theHunter: Call of the Wild™ at ≈ 7.0M–11.4M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (7 of 8) and Hunting (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hunting + Open World.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 2 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
theHunter Classic 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.1M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	45k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayHunting
Call of the Wild: The Angler™ 2022	Est. copies ≈ 189k–307k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	8k reviews Mixed	FishingSimulation
The Isle 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.6M 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $32.6M–$87.7M after Steam's cut $59.3M–$134.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	122k reviews Very Positive	DinosaursSurvival
Way of the Hunter 2022	Est. copies ≈ 281k–457k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	11k reviews Very Positive	AdventureHunting
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.4M 7.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	203k reviews Very Positive	HuntingOpen World
Night of the Dead 2024	Est. copies ≈ 295k–479k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	12k reviews Mostly Positive	Open World Survival CraftZombies
Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.3M–$22.3M after Steam's cut $15.1M–$34.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	49k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationMultiplayer
WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition 2025	Est. copies ≈ 332k–539k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessLife Sim