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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
187
qualityScore
▼
22 · 7d
Price
$17.99
Reviews
373
76% positive
Inbound MLT
126
peers liking this
Lifetime units
8,560
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Mostly Positive
Live
· refreshed Sep 2
Store ↗
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Community ↗
01
Sales
$135K est
02
Like Score
187 · 126
03
Reviews
389
Lifetime gross spend
$135K
est
grossAtFullPrice $154K · promo blend
Net to developer
$87K
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
8,560
▼ 100.0%
78 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$30K
22% of LTD
2K units · $12.95 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 373 reviews collected over 1.6 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
187
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
B
·
▼ 22
7d
D
C
B ●
A
S
Inbound
126
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
31
Avg pos%
93%
→ 187
Score history · 30d retention
186 (30d ago)
187 (now)
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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
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95%
8.8K
#2
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
93%
17K
#3
Geareo
0%
0
#4
Turing Complete
95%
5.4K
#5
Logic World
94%
336
#6
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0%
0
#7
Crosstalk
0%
0
#8
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Review score
6
/ 9
Mostly Positive
% positive
77.1%
cohort 71%
300 pos · 89 neg
Total reviews
389
tracked
389 crawled
Velocity · all-time
0 / day
est
389 all-time
Steam-purchase rate
95.1%
flat
4.9% free / EA / key
01
Language distribution
Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive
15 languages · top 12 shown
EN
English
65.3%
254
78%
RU
Russian
15.2%
59
73%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
5.7%
22
86%
DE
German
5.1%
20
80%
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
242
76
%
positive
62.2% 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 89
91
68
46
23
0
24·01
24·05
24·09
25·01
25·05
25·09
26·01
26·05
26·08
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
389 reviews
Free product
3
/ 389
0.8% of total
100% positive
Early access
159
/ 389
40.9% of total
88% positive
Key activation
16
/ 389
4.1% of total
94% positive
Steam Deck
2
/ 389
0.5% of total
100% positive
Steam purchase
370
/ 389
95.1% of total
77% positive
Recommended
300
/ 389
77.1% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
89
/ 389
22.9% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
389
/ 389
100.0% of total
77% positive
