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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
Prof. Scherer
· Jan 18, 2025
Automation
Logic
Programming
Education
Puzzle
+15
B
Like Score · tier B
223
qualityScore
▼
20 · 7d
Price
$17.99
Reviews
371
76% positive
Inbound MLT
145
peers liking this
Lifetime units
8,514
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Mostly Positive
Live
· refreshed Jul 23
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Community ↗
01
Sales
$128K est
02
Like Score
223 · 145
03
Reviews
388
04
Overlap
20 peers
Lifetime gross spend
$128K
est
grossAtFullPrice $153K · promo blend
Net to developer
$82K
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
8,514
▼ 31.8%
79 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$31K
24% of LTD
2K units · $12.95 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 371 reviews collected over 1.5 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
223
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
B
·
▼ 20
7d
D
C
B ●
A
S
Inbound
145
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
66
Avg pos%
90%
→ 223
Score history · 30d retention
184 (28d ago)
223 (now)
02
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03
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
93%
17K
#2
The Farmer Was Replaced
95%
8.6K
#3
Geareo
0%
0
#4
Quantum Odyssey
92%
123
#5
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0%
0
#6
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95%
5.3K
#7
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94%
329
#8
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76%
832
Review score
6
/ 9
Mostly Positive
% positive
77.3%
cohort 71%
300 pos · 88 neg
Total reviews
388
tracked
388 crawled
Velocity · all-time
0 / day
est
388 all-time
Steam-purchase rate
95.1%
flat
4.9% free / EA / key
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Language distribution
Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive
15 languages · top 12 shown
EN
English
64.9%
252
79%
RU
Russian
15.2%
59
73%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
5.7%
22
86%
DE
German
5.4%
21
76%
FR
French
3.1%
12
67%
ES
Spanish
1.8%
7
100%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
1.3%
5
40%
FI
finnish
0.5%
2
100%
KO
Korean
0.5%
2
100%
CZ
Czech
0.3%
1
100%
ES
Latin American Spanish
0.3%
1
0%
PL
Polish
0.3%
1
100%
02
Reviews by playtime
Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket
0-1h
71
62
%
positive
18.3% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
241
77
%
positive
62.1% of reviews
10-100h
75
93
%
positive
19.3% of reviews
100h+
1
100
%
positive
0.3% of reviews
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Monthly timeline
Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch
Positive 300
Negative 88
92
69
46
23
0
24·01
24·05
24·09
25·01
25·05
25·09
26·01
26·05
26·07
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
388 reviews
Free product
3
/ 388
0.8% of total
100% positive
Early access
160
/ 388
41.2% of total
88% positive
Key activation
16
/ 388
4.1% of total
94% positive
Steam Deck
2
/ 388
0.5% of total
100% positive
Steam purchase
369
/ 388
95.1% of total
77% positive
Recommended
300
/ 388
77.3% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
88
/ 388
22.7% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
388
/ 388
100.0% of total
77% positive
Reviewers tracked
388
indexed
20 peers with shared reviewers
Strongest peer
Satisfactory
8.2%
32 shared reviewers
Net-new audience
95%
est
369 reviewers no peer shares
Avg overlap
5.2%
3 clusters
across 20 top peers
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Audience overlap · top peers
Of this game’s reviewers, % who also reviewed each peer
Sort:
% overlap
shared
sentiment
% overlap ▼
Game
Overlap
Shared
Sentiment
Satisfactory
32 shared · 94% pos
8.2%
32
94%
The Farmer Was Replaced
30 shared · 87% pos
7.7%
30
87%
Ready or Not
28 shared · 61% pos
7.2%
28
61%
Factorio
27 shared · 89% pos
7%
27
89%
Space Engineers
21 shared · 67% pos
5.4%
21
67%
THE FINALS
20 shared · 75% pos
5.2%
20
75%
No Man's Sky
20 shared · 100% pos
5.2%
20
100%
Schedule I
19 shared · 95% pos
4.9%
19
95%
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
19 shared · 84% pos
4.9%
19
84%
Cyberpunk 2077
19 shared · 84% pos
4.9%
19
84%
Arma 3
19 shared · 84% pos
4.9%
19
84%
Vampire Survivors
18 shared · 94% pos
4.6%
18
94%
Phasmophobia
18 shared · 72% pos
4.6%
18
72%
Path of Exile
17 shared · 71% pos
4.4%
17
71%
Baldur's Gate 3
17 shared · 94% pos
4.4%
17
94%
Valheim
17 shared · 88% pos
4.4%
17
88%
Subnautica
16 shared · 75% pos
4.1%
16
75%
Marvel Rivals
16 shared · 56% pos
4.1%
16
56%
Dispatch
16 shared · 88% pos
4.1%
16
88%
Teardown
15 shared · 73% pos
3.9%
15
73%
Showing 20 peers with shared reviewers
