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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
Prof. Scherer
· Jan 18, 2025
Automation
Logic
Programming
Education
Puzzle
+15
S
Like Score · tier S
565
qualityScore
▲
179 · 7d
Price
$17.99
Reviews
380
76% positive
Inbound MLT
393
peers liking this
Lifetime units
8,721
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Mostly Positive
Live
· refreshed Sep 22
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Sales
$138K est
02
Like Score
565 · 394
03
Reviews
396
Lifetime gross spend
$138K
est
grossAtFullPrice $157K · promo blend
Net to developer
$89K
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
8,721
▲ 549.2%
78 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$30K
22% of LTD
2K units · $12.95 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 380 reviews collected over 1.7 years; English-dominant audience; Early-Access.
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Revenue · monthly
Gross consumer spend USD
Gross
01
Like Score
qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus
565
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
S
·
▲ 179
7d
D
C
B
A
S ●
Inbound
394
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
35
Avg pos%
94%
→ 565
Score history · 30d retention
214 (30d ago)
559 (now)
02
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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
The Farmer Was Replaced
95%
9.1K
#2
Turing Complete
95%
5.5K
#3
IT Specialist Simulator
74%
434
#4
SHENZHEN I/O
95%
3.7K
#5
The Signal State
86%
649
#6
Geareo
0%
0
#7
Retro Gadgets
89%
470
#8
Quantum Odyssey
92%
142
Review score
6
/ 9
Mostly Positive
% positive
77.0%
cohort 71%
305 pos · 91 neg
Total reviews
396
tracked
396 crawled
Velocity · all-time
0 / day
est
396 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%
258
78%
RU
Russian
15.2%
60
73%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
5.8%
23
87%
DE
German
5.1%
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
18.2% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
247
77
%
positive
62.4% of reviews
10-100h
76
93
%
positive
19.2% 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 305
Negative 91
91
68
46
23
0
24·01
24·06
24·11
25·04
25·09
26·02
26·07
26·09
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Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
396 reviews
Free product
3
/ 396
0.8% of total
100% positive
Early access
159
/ 396
40.2% of total
88% positive
Key activation
16
/ 396
4.0% of total
94% positive
Steam Deck
2
/ 396
0.5% of total
100% positive
Steam purchase
377
/ 396
95.2% of total
77% positive
Recommended
305
/ 396
77.0% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
91
/ 396
23.0% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
396
/ 396
100.0% of total
77% positive
