How much revenue did World of Retailing make?

$956–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did World of Retailing sell?

Q: How many copies did World of Retailing 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; $956–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k 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 World of Retailing and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including World of Retailing's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 158k–199k

best case 1.2M (X4: Foundations)

Games like World of Retailing

A typical game among these

≈ 158k–199k copies

≈ $514k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: X4: Foundations at ≈ 920k–1.5M copies, ≈ $12.7M–$34.0M 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 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 460 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Economy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Capitalism; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2026, 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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