How much revenue did I Am Jesus Christ: Prologue make?

I Am Jesus Christ: Prologue is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did I Am Jesus Christ: Prologue sell?

Q: How many copies did I Am Jesus Christ: Prologue sell?

30k to 48k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–48k; from 1k 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 I Am Jesus Christ: Prologue and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I Am Jesus Christ: Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–74k

best case 305k (Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator)

Games like I Am Jesus Christ: Prologue

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–74k copies

≈ $28k–$655k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator at ≈ 232k–377k copies, ≈ $446k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 316 reviews in their first month; the range was 149 to 911.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Historical (5 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Simulation, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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