How much revenue did Metro Sim Hustle make?

$27k–$73k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Metro Sim Hustle sell?

Q: How many copies did Metro Sim Hustle sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 399 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$112k before Steam's cut; from 399 reviews (Mostly 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 Metro Sim Hustle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Metro Sim Hustle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 415k–846k

best case 1.7M (My Time at Portia)

Games like Metro Sim Hustle

A typical game among these

≈ 415k–846k copies

≈ $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: My Time at Portia at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.5M–$28.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Life Sim (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Open World, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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