How much revenue did Flag Collection make?

$824–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flag Collection sell?

Q: How many copies did Flag Collection sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 122 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $824–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 122 reviews (Mixed)

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 Flag Collection and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Flag Collection's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–184k

best case 11.1M (Europa Universalis IV)

Games like Flag Collection

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–184k copies

≈ $30k–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~718 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Europa Universalis IV at ≈ 8.5M–13.8M copies, ≈ $116.6M–$313.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 180 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Economy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Historical, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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