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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
Prof. Scherer
· Jan 18, 2025
Automation
Logic
Education
Programming
Puzzle
+15
A
Like Score · tier A
306
qualityScore
▲
64 · 7d
Price · -22% promo
$16.83
$21.58
Reviews
355
77% positive
Inbound MLT
185
peers liking this
Lifetime units
8,147
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Mostly Positive
Live
· refreshed May 24
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Community ↗
01
Sales
$142K est
02
Like Score
306 · 185
03
Reviews
372
04
Overlap
—
Lifetime gross spend
$142K
est
grossAtFullPrice $137K · promo blend
Net to developer
$91K
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
8,147
▼ 83.9%
79 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$29K
20% of LTD
2K units · $12.12 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 355 reviews collected over 1.3 years; English-dominant audience; Early-Access.
01
Revenue · monthly
Gross consumer spend USD
Gross
01
Like Score
qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus
306
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
A
·
▲ 64
7d
D
C
B
A ●
S
Inbound
185
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
70
Avg pos%
91%
→ 306
Score history · 30d retention
249 (25d ago)
306 (now)
02
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03
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
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95%
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#6
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Review score
6
/ 9
Mostly Positive
% positive
78.0%
cohort 71%
290 pos · 82 neg
Total reviews
372
tracked
372 crawled
Velocity · all-time
0 / day
est
372 all-time
Steam-purchase rate
94.9%
flat
5.1% free / EA / key
01
Language distribution
Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive
14 languages · top 12 shown
EN
English
65.3%
243
79%
RU
Russian
14.5%
54
72%
DE
German
5.9%
22
77%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
5.9%
22
86%
FR
French
3.2%
12
67%
ES
Spanish
1.9%
7
100%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
0.8%
3
67%
KO
Korean
0.5%
2
100%
FI
finnish
0.5%
2
100%
CZ
Czech
0.3%
1
100%
TR
Turkish
0.3%
1
0%
IT
Italian
0.3%
1
100%
02
Reviews by playtime
Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket
0-1h
66
64
%
positive
17.7% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
232
77
%
positive
62.4% of reviews
10-100h
73
95
%
positive
19.6% of reviews
100h+
1
100
%
positive
0.3% of reviews
03
Monthly timeline
Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch
Positive 290
Negative 82
92
69
46
23
0
24·01
24·05
24·09
25·01
25·05
25·09
26·01
26·05
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
372 reviews
Free product
3
/ 372
0.8% of total
100% positive
Early access
160
/ 372
43.0% of total
88% positive
Key activation
16
/ 372
4.3% of total
94% positive
Steam Deck
2
/ 372
0.5% of total
100% positive
Steam purchase
353
/ 372
94.9% of total
78% positive
Recommended
290
/ 372
78.0% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
82
/ 372
22.0% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
372
/ 372
100.0% of total
78% positive
355
reviews
·
77%
positive
Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.
