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How many copies did Premier Manager 03/04 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 03/04 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Premier Manager 03/04's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 807k–973k
best case 1.2M (Football Manager 2020)
Games like Premier Manager 03/04

A typical game among these

≈ 807k–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: Football Manager 2020 at ≈ 912k–1.5M copies.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 6k 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 Simulation + Sports.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 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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