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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
Prof. Scherer
· Jan 18, 2025
Automation
Logic
Education
Programming
Puzzle
+15
B
Like Score · tier B
221
qualityScore
▲
31 · 7d
Price · -50% promo
$8.99
$17.99
Reviews
363
76% positive
Inbound MLT
147
peers liking this
Lifetime units
8,331
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Mostly Positive
Live
· refreshed Jul 3
Store ↗
|
Community ↗
01
Sales
$134K est
02
Like Score
221 · 147
03
Reviews
381
04
Overlap
—
Lifetime gross spend
$134K
est
grossAtFullPrice $75K · promo blend
Net to developer
$86K
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
8,331
▼ 100.0%
79 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$15K
11% of LTD
2K units · $6.47 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 363 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
221
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
B
·
▲ 31
7d
D
C
B ●
A
S
Inbound
147
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
66
Avg pos%
90%
→ 221
Score history · 30d retention
317 (29d ago)
221 (now)
02
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03
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
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#4
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Review score
6
/ 9
Mostly Positive
% positive
77.4%
cohort 71%
295 pos · 86 neg
Total reviews
381
tracked
381 crawled
Velocity · all-time
0 / day
est
381 all-time
Steam-purchase rate
95.0%
flat
5.0% free / EA / key
01
Language distribution
Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive
15 languages · top 12 shown
EN
English
64.8%
247
79%
RU
Russian
15.0%
57
74%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
5.8%
22
86%
DE
German
5.5%
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%
TR
Turkish
0.3%
1
0%
PL
Polish
0.3%
1
100%
CZ
Czech
0.3%
1
100%
02
Reviews by playtime
Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket
0-1h
69
62
%
positive
18.1% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
237
77
%
positive
62.2% of reviews
10-100h
74
93
%
positive
19.4% of reviews
100h+
1
100
%
positive
0.3% of reviews
03
Monthly timeline
Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch
Positive 295
Negative 86
92
69
46
23
0
24·01
24·05
24·09
25·01
25·05
25·09
26·01
26·05
26·06
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
381 reviews
Free product
3
/ 381
0.8% of total
100% positive
Early access
160
/ 381
42.0% of total
88% positive
Key activation
16
/ 381
4.2% of total
94% positive
Steam Deck
2
/ 381
0.5% of total
100% positive
Steam purchase
362
/ 381
95.0% of total
77% positive
Recommended
295
/ 381
77.4% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
86
/ 381
22.6% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
381
/ 381
100.0% of total
77% positive
363
reviews
·
76%
positive
Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.
