How much revenue did System Under Surveillance make?

$871–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did System Under Surveillance sell?

Q: How many copies did System Under Surveillance sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $871–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Only 8 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 System Under Surveillance and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including System Under Surveillance's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–64k

best case 361k (Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition)

Games like System Under Surveillance

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–64k copies

≈ $36k–$579k after Steam's cut

from ~465 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition at ≈ 275k–447k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 28.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Cyberpunk (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Psychological Horror, priced around $17.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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