How much revenue did City 13 make?

$47–$127 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did City 13 sell?

Q: How many copies did City 13 sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $47–$127 after Steam's cut $86–$195 before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 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 City 13 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including City 13's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 476k–1.8M

best case 18.7M (Brawlhalla)

Games like City 13

A typical game among these

≈ 476k–1.8M copies

≈ $4.1M–$8.9M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is 2D Platformer (4 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: Brawlhalla at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 7k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (4 of 8) and Action Roguelike (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + 2D Fighter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 2 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 43 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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