How much revenue did Suzerain make?

$1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Suzerain sell?

Q: How many copies did Suzerain sell?

296k to 481k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 296k–481k; $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.7M before Steam's cut; from 12k 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 Suzerain and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Suzerain's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–34k

best case 595k (Long Live The Queen)

Games like Suzerain

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–34k copies

≈ $20k–$300k after Steam's cut

from ~247 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Long Live The Queen at ≈ 453k–736k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 75 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 291.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Political Sim, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, and none of them 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 79 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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