How much revenue did Computer Tycoon make?

$193k–$520k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Computer Tycoon sell?

Q: How many copies did Computer Tycoon sell?

35k to 57k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 35k–57k; $193k–$520k after Steam's cut $351k–$799k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Computer Tycoon and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Computer Tycoon's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–58k

best case 731k (CPUCores :: Maximize Your FPS)

Games like Computer Tycoon

A typical game among these

≈ 18k–58k copies

≈ $86k–$229k 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Hardware (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: CPUCores :: Maximize Your FPS at ≈ 557k–905k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.0M 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 157 reviews in their first month; the range was 46 to 701.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hardware (4 of 8) and Software (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Software, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Software + Gaming + Mod; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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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