How much revenue did The Political Machine 2020 make?

The Political Machine 2020 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Political Machine 2020 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Political Machine 2020 sell?

18k to 30k copies, based on its 738 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–30k; from 738 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid The Political Machine 2020 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Political Machine 2020's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 420k–1.1M

best case 1.6M (Pacify)

Games like The Political Machine 2020

A typical game among these

≈ 420k–1.1M copies

≈ $3.1M–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~20k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Simulation (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Pacify at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 364 reviews in their first month; the range was 57 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (3 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 3 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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