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Job Simulator is an action game released in 2016. It has received 4,312 Steam reviews. The game is tagged as Action, Casual, Indie, and Simulation.
Overview
Job Simulator is a 2016 Action game developed by Owlchemy Labs and published by Owlchemy Labs. On Steam it has gathered 5,430 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Owlchemy Labs with publisher Owlchemy Labs is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 293,000 to 684,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Job Simulator can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
5,430
Positive
91%
Steam appid
448280
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
87
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0293K to 684K
units (median: 489K)
≈ $3.3M to $7.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_91% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Job Simulator at roughly 293,000 to 684,000 copies, with a median around 489,000, derived from its 5,430 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
26 observed days · window low $19.99Across 26 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Job Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Job Simulator has sold between 293,220 and 684,180 units (median 488,700), derived from its 5,430 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Job Simulator?
- Job Simulator was developed by Owlchemy Labs and published by Owlchemy Labs.
- Who published Job Simulator?
- Job Simulator was published by Owlchemy Labs, developed by Owlchemy Labs. See Owlchemy Labs's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Job Simulator released?
- Job Simulator was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Job Simulator have on Steam?
- Job Simulator has 5,430 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
- Is Job Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate Job Simulator 91% positive across 5,430 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Job Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as BONEWORKS, People Playground, Five Nights at Freddy's 4, Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Owlchemy Labs's other releases and Owlchemy Labs's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Job Simulator sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Job Simulator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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- B
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- F
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- R
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- S
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