How much revenue did Socialism Simulator make?

$8k–$21k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Socialism Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Socialism Simulator sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 284 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$32k before Steam's cut; from 284 reviews (Very 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 Socialism Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Socialism Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 322k–595k

best case 2.0M (Sid Meier's Civilization VII)

Games like Socialism Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 322k–595k copies

≈ $2.3M–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Political Sim (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Sid Meier's Civilization VII at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $29.7M–$79.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 855 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Political Sim (4 of 8) and Female Protagonist (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Historical, priced around $70. The breakout hits carry Grand Strategy + Historical + 4X; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, 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 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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