How much revenue did City of Gangsters make?

$320k–$860k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did City of Gangsters sell?

Q: How many copies did City of Gangsters sell?

39k to 63k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–63k; $320k–$860k after Steam's cut $581k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 79k–288k

best case 685k (Drug Dealer Simulator)

Games like City of Gangsters

A typical game among these

≈ 79k–288k copies

≈ $612k–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Drug Dealer Simulator at ≈ 522k–848k copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.7M 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 280 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Crime, priced around $20.
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 36 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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Drug Dealer Simulator 2020	Est. copies ≈ 522k–848k 6.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.7M after Steam's cut $5.2M–$11.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	21k reviews Very Positive	SimulationCrime
Definitely Not Fried Chicken 2023	Est. copies ≈ 64k–104k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $440k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $800k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Management Simulation
112 Operator 2020	Est. copies ≈ 183k–297k 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	7k reviews Very Positive	SimulationRealistic
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Weedcraft Inc 2019	Est. copies ≈ 49k–79k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $267k–$719k after Steam's cut $486k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationStrategy
Godlike Burger 2022	Est. copies ≈ 27k–43k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $147k–$396k after Steam's cut $267k–$608k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	CookingTime Management
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