Steam Revenue Calculator
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How much do Simulation games make on Steam?

Median revenue
$2.2K
All Steam: $1.1K
Middle half earn
$300–$20.2K
Top 10% earn over
$195.8K
All Steam: $94.4K
Earn over $100K
13%
All Steam: 10%
Games
27,032
Clear

How revenue is spread

Under $1K
10,778
$1K–10K
7,688
$10K–100K
5,059
$100K–1M
2,032
$1M–10M
1,071
$10M+
404

Median revenue by price

Under $5
$47811,671 games
$5–10
$3.2K7,560 games
$10–15
$14.5K3,355 games
$15–20
$44.4K2,326 games
$20–30
$176.4K1,264 games
$30+
$140.2K856 games

Median revenue by release year

2004
$65.1M1 games
2005
$62.7K1 games
2006
$135K20 games
2007
$327.8K15 games
2008
$48.6K39 games
2009
$38K59 games
2010
$89.4K39 games
2011
$107.3K35 games
2012
$137.7K43 games
2013
$394.5K82 games
2014
$39.5K279 games
2015
$20.6K477 games
2016
$10.7K790 games
2017
$5.8K1,146 games
2018
$2.9K1,416 games
2019
$2.8K1,384 games
2020
$3.5K1,741 games
2021
$2.4K1,783 games
2022
$2.6K1,999 games
2023
$1.8K2,468 games
2024
$1.8K3,256 games
2025
$1.3K4,464 games
2026
$6995,488 games
2027
$01 games

Top games

  1. 1Rust$2.3B
  2. 2DayZ$932.6M
  3. 3No Man's Sky$915.1M
  4. 4Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI$797.4M
  5. 5Forza Horizon 5$753.2M
  6. 6Euro Truck Simulator 2$731.2M
  7. 7Stardew Valley$646.2M
  8. 8Hearts of Iron IV$627.5M
  9. 97 Days to Die$592.5M
  10. 10The Forest$559M
  11. 11Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord$555.9M
  12. 12Garry's Mod$525.9M
  13. 13BeamNG.drive$470.4M
  14. 14Call of Duty®: Black Ops III$456.2M
  15. 15Satisfactory$453.5M
  16. 16Project Zomboid$442.9M
  17. 17Sons Of The Forest$411.7M
  18. 18Forza Horizon 6$370.7M
  19. 19RimWorld$352.5M
  20. 20Squad$348.4M
  21. 21EA SPORTS FC™ 26$342.3M
  22. 22Stellaris$334.2M
  23. 23Arma 3$330.1M
  24. 24Factorio$323.4M
  25. 25Cities: Skylines$315.8M

Top developers

  1. Facepunch Studios2 games · $2.8B
  2. Paradox Development Studio14 games · $1.7B
  3. Aspyr (Mac)8 games · $1.7B
  4. Bohemia Interactive10 games · $1.4B
  5. Firaxis Games10 games · $1.2B
  6. Playground Games2 games · $1.1B
  7. Aspyr (Linux)3 games · $1B
  8. Endnight Games Ltd2 games · $970.7M
  9. Hello Games1 games · $915.1M
  10. SCS Software19 games · $894M

Top publishers

  1. Paradox Interactive39 games · $2.4B
  2. Facepunch Studios1 games · $2.3B
  3. Xbox Game Studios14 games · $1.7B
  4. Aspyr (Mac)8 games · $1.7B
  5. 2K24 games · $1.5B
  6. Bohemia Interactive10 games · $1.4B
  7. Aspyr (Linux)3 games · $1B
  8. Electronic Arts28 games · $991.3M
  9. Hello Games1 games · $915.1M
  10. SCS Software6 games · $893.7M

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