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This simulation game, released in 2017, puts players in charge of a gold mining operation. It has garnered 14,882 Steam reviews. The developer is currently unknown.
Overview
Gold Mining Simulator is a 2017 Indie game developed by Code Horizon and published by Code Horizon. On Steam it has gathered 16,166 player reviews, 73% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Code Horizon with publisher Code Horizon is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 776,000 to 1.8 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Gold Mining Simulator can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
16,166
Positive
73%
Steam appid
451340
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0776K to 1.8M
units (median: 1.3M)
≈ $8.9M to $20.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Gold Mining Simulator at roughly 776,000 to 1.8 million copies, with a median around 1.3 million, derived from its 16,166 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $14.8M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $11.28Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $11.28 to $19.99, averaging $18.81 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $11.28 on 2026-03-27.
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Platforms
windows
Tags
SimulationMiningSingleplayerRealisticOpen WorldIndieDrivingSandboxEconomyBuildingFirst-PersonExplorationStrategyManagementAutomobile SimAdventureRelaxingFunnyCo-opDifficult
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Gold Mining Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Gold Mining Simulator has sold between 775,968 and 1,810,592 units (median 1,293,280), derived from its 16,166 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Gold Mining Simulator?
- Gold Mining Simulator was developed by Code Horizon and published by Code Horizon.
- When was Gold Mining Simulator released?
- Gold Mining Simulator was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Gold Mining Simulator have on Steam?
- Gold Mining Simulator has 16,166 Steam reviews, of which 73% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Gold Mining Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Gold Mining Simulator has sold between 775,968 and 1,810,592 units (median 1,293,280), derived from its 16,166 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Gold Mining Simulator?
- Gold Mining Simulator was developed by Code Horizon and published by Code Horizon.
- When was Gold Mining Simulator released?
- Gold Mining Simulator was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Gold Mining Simulator have on Steam?
- Gold Mining Simulator has 16,166 Steam reviews, of which 73% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Gold Mining Simulator within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Code Horizon's other releases and Code Horizon's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Gold Mining Simulator sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Gold Mining Simulator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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