Artist Life Simulator
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Casual indie game about an artist’s life, Artist Life Simulator launched in 2022. It is self-published by Interactive Fate, with 171 Steam reviews at 82% positive, and an initial price of $19.99.
Overview
Artist Life Simulator is a 2022 Casual game developed by Interactive Fate and published by Interactive Fate. On Steam it has gathered 172 player reviews, 81% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Interactive Fate with publisher Interactive Fate is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4,000 to 8,000 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, Artist Life Simulator can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
172
Positive
81%
Steam appid
1643180
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.04K to 8K
units (median: 6K)
≈ $41K to $96K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_81% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 35 |
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 Artist Life Simulator at roughly 4,000 to 8,000 copies, with a median around 6,000, derived from its 172 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $69K 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
14 observed days · window low $5.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-01 06:34 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Genres
CasualIndieRPGSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Artist Life Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Artist Life Simulator has sold between 3,612 and 8,428 units (median 6,020), derived from its 172 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Artist Life Simulator?
- Artist Life Simulator was developed by Interactive Fate and published by Interactive Fate.
- Who published Artist Life Simulator?
- Artist Life Simulator was published by Interactive Fate, developed by Interactive Fate. See Interactive Fate's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Artist Life Simulator released?
- Artist Life Simulator was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Artist Life Simulator have on Steam?
- Artist Life Simulator has 172 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
- Is Artist Life Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate Artist Life Simulator 81% positive across 172 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 Artist Life Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Interactive Fate's other releases and Interactive Fate's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Artist Life 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 Artist Life Simulator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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