The Sims™ 3 — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$36.88Mest

grossAtFullPrice $36.88M · promo blend

Net to developer

$23.75Mest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

1,844,700▼ 100.0%

0 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$00% of LTD

0 units · $0.00 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 30,745 reviews collected over 15.3 years; English-dominant audience; non-Early-Access.

01 Revenue · monthly

Gross consumer spend USD

Gross

02 Lifetime breakdown

Launch window vs tail · units & spend

30 days launch window

Launch · units

00.0%

Tail · units

1.8M

1,844,700100.0%

Launch · gross

$00.0%

Tail · gross

$36.88M

$36.88M100.0%

Net to dev

$23.75M

$23.75M64.4%

01 Like Score

qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus

Tier S · ▲ 259 7d

DCBAS ●

Inbound

1,336

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

110

Avg pos%

87%

→ 1,959

Score history · 30d retention

925 (14d ago)1,959 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

Games whose “More Like This” lists rank The Sims™ 3 · 1,336 inbound · top 10 shown

qualityScore 1,959

Bloons TD 6341K reviews · 97% pos · Ninja Kiwi · 2018

+5.4

Dispatch164K reviews · 97% pos · AdHoc Studio · 2025

+5.1

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator139K reviews · 97% pos · Landfall · 2021

+5.0

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition139K reviews · 97% pos · PopCap Games, Inc. · 2009

+5.0

South Park™: The Stick of Truth™60K reviews · 97% pos · Obsidian Entertainment · 2014

+4.6

The Sims™ 4194K reviews · 86% pos · Maxis · 2020

+4.5

Brick Rigs51K reviews · 94% pos · Fluppisoft GmbH · 2023

+4.4

Clicker Heroes62K reviews · 89% pos · Playsaurus · 2015

+4.3

Goat Simulator54K reviews · 90% pos · Coffee Stain Studios · 2014

+4.3

Two Point Hospital26K reviews · 92% pos · Two Point Studios · 2018

+4.1

+ 14 more inbound gamesLong tail · ranks across catalog

+49.6

03 The Sims™ 3’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

#6Disney Dreamlight Valley

92%21K

#7Graveyard Keeper 2

0%0

#8Kerbal Space Program

95%112K

Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

86.3%cohort 71%

26,568 pos · 4,231 neg

Total reviews

31Ktracked

30,799 crawled

Velocity · 30d

4 / dayest

108 this month

Steam-purchase rate

88.3%flat

11.7% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive

29 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

63.8%19,66587%

ZHSimplified Chinese

6.8%2,08074%

RURussian

5.7%1,75386%

ESSpanish

3.8%1,18490%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

3.6%1,10388%

TRTurkish

3.1%96387%

PLPolish

2.2%67293%

KOKorean

2.0%62183%

DEGerman

1.9%57583%

FRFrench

1.6%49883%

THThai

1.2%37094%

TWTraditional Chinese

0.8%24183%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 1,507

53%positive

4.9% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 6,347

80%positive

20.6% of reviews

10-100h 13,408

89%positive

43.5% of reviews

100h+ 9,537

92%positive

31.0% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 26,568Negative 4,231

8736554372180

15·0817·0118·0619·1121·0422·0924·0225·0726·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

30,799 reviews

Free product

724/ 30,799

2.4% of total91% positive

Early access

0/ 30,799

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

2,878/ 30,799

9.3% of total90% positive

Steam Deck

46/ 30,799

0.1% of total89% positive

Steam purchase

27,197/ 30,799

88.3% of total86% positive

Recommended

26,568/ 30,799

86.3% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

4,231/ 30,799

13.7% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

30,799/ 30,799

100.0% of total86% positive

30,745 reviews · 85% positive

Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.