How big is the Farming sim market on Steam?

A typical Farming sim game sells 574k to 932k copies, and the top decile 1.6M to 2.6M, based on the 41 games SteamSpy lists for the tag (its visible subset). Labeled estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

What Farming sim games usually sell on Steam

What Farming sim games sell on Steam, shown two ways: a SteamSpy sample of the whole genre, and the Farming sim games people have looked up here.

The whole genre, from SteamSpy's sample

A typical game sells

≈ 574k–932k copies

$2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut, est.

The top decile

≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies

$6.6M–$17.8M after Steam's cut, est.

Half the reviews in SteamSpy's sample of 41 Farming sim games sit with 2 of them.

Based on the 41 Farming sim games SteamSpy listed on November 15, 2026. It misses the games that barely sold, so these figures flatter the genre. Games are grouped by the tags players give them, which are applied loosely, so a genre's edges are fuzzy. Copies are SteamSpy estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

The Farming sim games gathered on wishvane

Across the 237 Farming sim games compared here, a typical one sells ≈ 62k–137k copies (est.), with the biggest of them, Stardew Valley, at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M. These are the games people chose to compare, not a sample of the genre, so they run far larger than SteamSpy's figures above.

The Farming sim games gathered here span 2010 to 2026, and 79 of them shipped in the last two years.
The biggest Farming sim games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Life Sim and Management.
Across the Farming sim games gathered here a typical price is $14.99, and the biggest charge more, around $20.

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