How much revenue did Chinese Parents make?

$2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chinese Parents sell?

Q: How many copies did Chinese Parents sell?

823k to 1.3M copies, based on its 27k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 823k–1.3M; $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.3M before Steam's cut; from 27k 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 Chinese Parents and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chinese Parents's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 98k–540k

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Chinese Parents

A typical game among these

≈ 98k–540k copies

≈ $515k–$783k after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Life Sim (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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Life Sim (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Farming Sim + Agriculture + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 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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