How much revenue did The Coin Game make?

$811k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Coin Game sell?

Q: How many copies did The Coin Game sell?

148k to 240k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 148k–240k; $811k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 The Coin Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Coin Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–152k

best case 431k (Internet Cafe Simulator 2)

Games like The Coin Game

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–152k copies

≈ $13k–$849k after Steam's cut

from ~625 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Internet Cafe Simulator 2 at ≈ 328k–533k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 61 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 3k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Life Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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Dude Simulator 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 61k–100k 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $84k–$226k after Steam's cut $153k–$348k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Mixed	Life SimIndie
Ultimate Fishing Simulator® 2018	Est. copies ≈ 279k–453k 15x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	3DAmerica
Domestic Dog 2015	Est. copies ≈ 24k–39k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $33k–$88k after Steam's cut $60k–$136k before Steam's cut	$4.99	491 reviews Very Positive	DogSimulation
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