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How many copies did Premier Manager 05/06 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$102–$275 after Steam's cut $185–$423 before Steam's cut
from 5 reviews (5 user reviews)
Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Premier Manager 05/06 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Premier Manager 05/06's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 719k–973k
best case 2.3M (NBA 2K20)
Games like Premier Manager 05/06

A typical game among these

≈ 719k–973k copies

from ~25k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: NBA 2K20 at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 8k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Sports (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Basketball + Sports. The breakout hits carry Basketball + Capitalism + Casual; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.
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 38 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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