How many copies did Microtransaction Simulator sell?

29k to 47k copies, based on its 844 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Microtransaction Simulator make?

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

How big is Microtransaction Simulator?

Estimated owners: ≈ 29k–47k; from 844 reviews (Very Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.7M–25.5M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Microtransaction Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 10.7M–25.5M copies

≈ $78.1M–$207.9M after Steam's cut

from ~251k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (3 of 8) and Sandbox (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 38 for the most recent game here to about 52 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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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.9M–50.1M 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.3M–$113.8M after Steam's cut $77.0M–$175.1M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
VRChat 2017	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	268k reviews Mostly Positive	VRFree to Play
Stellaris 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $112.7M–$303.1M after Steam's cut $205.0M–$466.3M before the cut	$49.99	197k reviews Very Positive	SpaceGrand Strategy
House Flipper 2018	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.3M–$62.7M after Steam's cut $42.4M–$96.5M before the cut	$24.99	112k reviews Very Positive	SimulationDesign & Illustration
Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.8M–$139.4M after Steam's cut $94.2M–$214.4M before the cut	$19.99	227k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
Hearts of Iron IV 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.6M–25.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $215.0M–$578.2M after Steam's cut $391.0M–$889.5M before the cut	$49.99	376k reviews Very Positive	StrategyWorld War II
SCP: Secret Laboratory 2017	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	234k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer