The Sims 3
Short description
The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.
- Developer
- Maxis, The Sims Studio
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Release
- Thu, Jan 27, 2011
- Price
- $19.99
- Reviews
- 31,126
- Positive
- 86%
- Followers
- 117,059
- Owners (estimated)
- 2M – 5M
- Concurrent players
- 1,264
- Genres
- Simulation
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $19.01, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $19.99 launch price. That is 5% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
78 data points since Aug 10, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 265 further data points reach back to Jan 1, 2011 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $2.99 on Jul 23, 2018.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with The Sims 3. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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House Flipper | Empyrean 5 titles | 4 | − Life Sim − Character Customization + Design & Illustration + Relaxing | $1.99 92% best price ever |
92,586 | 94% | Thu, May 17, 2018 | $80m $38.4m – $96m |
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The Sims 4 | Maxis 9 titles | 4 | − Sandbox − Singleplayer + Free to Play + Romance | Free | 83,361 | 85% | Thu, Jun 18, 2020 | n/a |
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Cities: Skylines II | Colossal Order 4 titles +1 | 4 | − Life Sim − Character Customization + City Builder + Management | $49.99 | 64,651 | 57% | Tue, Oct 24, 2023 | $142m $97.9m – $245m |
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inZOI | inZOI Studio first game | 4 | − Building − Sandbox + Sexual Content + Realistic | $39.99 | 30,463 | 78% | Thu, Mar 27, 2025 | $54.2m $39.5m – $79.1m |
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Poly Bridge | Dry Cactus 5 titles | 4 | − Life Sim − Character Customization + Physics + Puzzle | $9.99 | 17,146 | 91% | Tue, Jul 12, 2016 | $6.8m $4.4m – $8.8m |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.