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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
215
qualityScore
▼
47 · 7d
Price
$17.99
Reviews
359
77% positive
Inbound MLT
137
peers liking this
Lifetime units
8,239
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Mostly Positive
Live
· refreshed Jun 13
Store ↗
|
Community ↗
01
Sales
$138K est
02
Like Score
215 · 137
03
Reviews
377
04
Overlap
—
Lifetime gross spend
$138K
est
grossAtFullPrice $148K · promo blend
Net to developer
$89K
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
8,239
▼ 88.0%
79 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$31K
22% of LTD
2K units · $12.95 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 359 reviews collected over 1.4 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
215
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
B
·
▼ 47
7d
D
C
B ●
A
S
Inbound
137
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
68
Avg pos%
90%
→ 215
Score history · 30d retention
243 (28d ago)
215 (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%
8.3K
#2
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93%
16K
#3
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92%
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#4
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76%
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#5
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0%
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#6
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0%
0
#7
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#8
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100%
22
Review score
6
/ 9
Mostly Positive
% positive
77.7%
cohort 71%
293 pos · 84 neg
Total reviews
377
tracked
377 crawled
Velocity · all-time
0 / day
est
377 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
65.3%
246
78%
RU
Russian
14.9%
56
73%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
5.8%
22
86%
DE
German
5.6%
21
76%
FR
French
3.2%
12
67%
ES
Spanish
1.9%
7
100%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
0.8%
3
67%
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
68
63
%
positive
18.0% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
235
77
%
positive
62.3% of reviews
10-100h
73
95
%
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 293
Negative 84
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
377 reviews
Free product
3
/ 377
0.8% of total
100% positive
Early access
160
/ 377
42.4% of total
88% positive
Key activation
16
/ 377
4.2% of total
94% positive
Steam Deck
2
/ 377
0.5% of total
100% positive
Steam purchase
358
/ 377
95.0% of total
78% positive
Recommended
293
/ 377
77.7% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
84
/ 377
22.3% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
377
/ 377
100.0% of total
78% positive
359
reviews
·
77%
positive
Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.
