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Management simulation Big Ambitions, released in 2023, allows players to build a business empire. This Early Access title boasts 12,914 Steam reviews with a 93% positive rating. Hovgaard Games developed and published the simulation.
Overview
Big Ambitions is a 2023 Indie game developed by Hovgaard Games and published by Hovgaard Games. On Steam it has gathered 12,954 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $23. The pairing of developer Hovgaard Games with publisher Hovgaard Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 505,000 to 1.2 million 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, Big Ambitions can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
12,954
Positive
93%
Steam appid
1331550
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0505K to 1.2M
units (median: 842K)
≈ $6.6M to $15.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$23 | +5 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 65 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Big Ambitions at roughly 505,000 to 1.2 million copies, with a median around 842,000, derived from its 12,954 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $11.1M 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
90d · low $14.67Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $14.67 to $22.99, averaging $21.85 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $14.67 on 2026-04-29.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Big Ambitions sold?
- indielist estimates Big Ambitions has sold between 505,206 and 1,178,814 units (median 842,010), derived from its 12,954 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Big Ambitions?
- Big Ambitions was developed by Hovgaard Games and published by Hovgaard Games.
- When was Big Ambitions released?
- Big Ambitions was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Big Ambitions have on Steam?
- Big Ambitions has 12,954 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Big Ambitions within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Hovgaard Games's other releases and Hovgaard Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Big Ambitions 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 Big Ambitions page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.