How many copies has Big Ambitions sold?

indielist estimates Big Ambitions has sold between 497,289 and 1,160,341 units (median 828,815), derived from its 12,751 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.

Who published Big Ambitions?

Big Ambitions was published by Hovgaard Games, developed by Hovgaard Games. See Hovgaard Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Big Ambitions released?

Big Ambitions was released in 2023.

How many reviews does Big Ambitions have on Steam?

Big Ambitions has 12,751 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.

Is Big Ambitions worth playing?

Steam players rate Big Ambitions 93% positive across 12,751 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.

Big Ambitions

Mar 10, 2023 Indie $25.99

Developer Hovgaard Games Publisher Hovgaard Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

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.

Big Ambitions is a 2023 Indie game developed by Hovgaard Games and published by Hovgaard Games. On Steam it has gathered 12,751 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 $26. 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 497,000 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

12,751

Positive

93%

Steam appid

1331550

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

497K to 1.2M

units (median: 829K)

≈ $7.4M to $17.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

497K median 1.2M

+ How is this calculated?

12,751 reviews × NB(65) = 828,815 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$26	+5
positive_93%	+10
final NB	65

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 Big Ambitions at roughly 497,000 to 1.2 million copies, with a median around 829,000, derived from its 12,751 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $12.3M 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

51 observed days · window low $17.24

Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-28, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $17.24 to $25.99. The tracked-window low was $17.24 on 2026-06-09.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Big Ambitions sold?: indielist estimates Big Ambitions has sold between 497,289 and 1,160,341 units (median 828,815), derived from its 12,751 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published Big Ambitions?: Big Ambitions was published by Hovgaard Games, developed by Hovgaard Games. See Hovgaard Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Big Ambitions released?: Big Ambitions was released in 2023.
How many reviews does Big Ambitions have on Steam?: Big Ambitions has 12,751 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Is Big Ambitions worth playing?: Steam players rate Big Ambitions 93% positive across 12,751 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.

Players looking for games like Big Ambitions can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Supermarket Simulator, Supermarket Together, Dyson Sphere Program, PC Building Simulator, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.