How much revenue did Influence, Inc. make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Influence, Inc. sell?

Q: How many copies did Influence, Inc. sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 19 reviews (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 Influence, Inc. and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Influence, Inc.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 586–912

best case 93k (CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience)

Games like Influence, Inc.

A typical game among these

≈ 586–912 copies

≈ $2k–$5k after Steam's cut

from ~20 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience at ≈ 71k–116k copies, ≈ $391k–$1.1M 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 97 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 714.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Time Management (7 of 8) and Political (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Time Management, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Political; a typical game here doesn't.
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 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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