How much revenue did Civilization Simulator make?

$143–$384 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Civilization Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Civilization Simulator sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $143–$384 after Steam's cut $260–$590 before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 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 Civilization Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Civilization Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–137k

best case 324k (Terra Invicta)

Games like Civilization Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 18k–137k copies

≈ $144k–$1.2M 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: Terra Invicta at ≈ 247k–401k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 623 reviews in their first month; the range was 77 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Alternate History (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Grand Strategy, priced around $40.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 52 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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