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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
Prof. Scherer
· Jan 18, 2025
Automation
Logic
Programming
Education
Puzzle
+15
A
Like Score · tier A
268
qualityScore
▲
2 · 7d
Price
$17.99
Reviews
383
76% positive
Inbound MLT
182
peers liking this
Lifetime units
8,790
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Mostly Positive
Live
· refreshed Oct 12
Store ↗
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Community ↗
01
Sales
$138K est
02
Like Score
268 · 182
03
Reviews
399
Lifetime gross spend
$138K
est
grossAtFullPrice $158K · promo blend
Net to developer
$89K
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
8,790
▼ 84.3%
78 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$30K
22% of LTD
2K units · $12.95 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 383 reviews collected over 1.7 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
268
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
A
·
▲ 2
7d
D
C
B
A ●
S
Inbound
182
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
33
Avg pos%
92%
→ 268
Score history · 30d retention
278 (30d ago)
266 (now)
02
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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
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95%
9.4K
#2
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95%
5.7K
#3
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93%
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#4
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#5
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85%
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#6
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91%
144
#7
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100%
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#8
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86%
655
Review score
6
/ 9
Mostly Positive
% positive
76.9%
cohort 71%
307 pos · 92 neg
Total reviews
399
tracked
399 crawled
Velocity · all-time
0 / day
est
399 all-time
Steam-purchase rate
95.2%
flat
4.8% free / EA / key
01
Language distribution
Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive
15 languages · top 12 shown
EN
English
65.2%
260
78%
RU
Russian
15.3%
61
72%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
5.8%
23
87%
DE
German
5.0%
20
80%
FR
French
3.0%
12
67%
ES
Spanish
1.8%
7
100%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
1.3%
5
40%
PL
Polish
0.5%
2
100%
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%
02
Reviews by playtime
Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket
0-1h
72
61
%
positive
18.0% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
249
76
%
positive
62.4% of reviews
10-100h
77
94
%
positive
19.3% of reviews
100h+
1
100
%
positive
0.3% of reviews
03
Monthly timeline
Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch
Positive 307
Negative 92
91
68
46
23
0
24·01
24·06
24·11
25·04
25·09
26·02
26·07
26·10
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
399 reviews
Free product
3
/ 399
0.8% of total
100% positive
Early access
158
/ 399
39.6% of total
88% positive
Key activation
16
/ 399
4.0% of total
94% positive
Steam Deck
2
/ 399
0.5% of total
100% positive
Steam purchase
380
/ 399
95.2% of total
77% positive
Recommended
307
/ 399
76.9% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
92
/ 399
23.1% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
399
/ 399
100.0% of total
77% positive
