How much revenue did Pandemic Crisis make?

$183–$494 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pandemic Crisis sell?

Q: How many copies did Pandemic Crisis sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $183–$494 after Steam's cut $333–$760 before Steam's cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Only 9 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 Pandemic Crisis and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pandemic Crisis's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 147–3k

best case 35k (Shadows of Forbidden Gods)

Games like Pandemic Crisis

A typical game among these

≈ 147–3k copies

≈ $361–$16k after Steam's cut

from ~22 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Shadows of Forbidden Gods at ≈ 27k–43k copies, ≈ $146k–$393k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 573.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Outbreak Sim (7 of 8) and Grand Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + God Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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