How much revenue did The Amazing American Circus make?

$44k–$119k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Amazing American Circus sell?

Q: How many copies did The Amazing American Circus sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 433 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $44k–$119k after Steam's cut $80k–$183k before Steam's cut; from 433 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 The Amazing American Circus and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Amazing American Circus's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 303k–485k

best case 799k (Marvel's Midnight Suns)

Games like The Amazing American Circus

A typical game among these

≈ 303k–485k copies

≈ $4.0M–$8.4M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Marvel's Midnight Suns at ≈ 609k–990k copies, ≈ $10.0M–$27.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (8 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Superhero + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $60.
When they shipped: Only 1 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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