How much revenue did The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence make?

$13k–$35k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence sell?

Q: How many copies did The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 54 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before Steam's cut; from 54 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 The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–3k

best case 314k (The Farmer Was Replaced)

Games like The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–3k copies

≈ $1k–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~70 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: The Farmer Was Replaced at ≈ 239k–389k copies, ≈ $658k–$1.8M 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 11 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 4k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Education (6 of 8) and Programming (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 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 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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BOT.vinnik Chess: Opening Traps 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $950–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$1.99	70 reviews Very Positive	ChessArtificial Intelligence
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