How much revenue did The President make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The President sell?

Q: How many copies did The President sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 15 reviews (Mixed)

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 President and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The President's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 115k–249k

best case 326k (Beholder 2)

Games like The President

A typical game among these

≈ 115k–249k copies

≈ $960k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Beholder 2 at ≈ 248k–404k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 360 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Political Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dystopian + Choices Matter, priced around $18.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, 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 43 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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First Strike 2017	Est. copies ≈ 70k–114k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $231k–$621k after Steam's cut $420k–$955k before Steam's cut	$11.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyRTS
Throne of Lies®: Medieval Politics 2017	Est. copies ≈ 93k–151k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Social DeductionMultiplayer
Beholder 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 248k–404k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M before Steam's cut	$17.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Dystopian Strategy
Democracy 4 2022	Est. copies ≈ 159k–258k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	6k reviews Very Positive	StrategyPolitical Sim
Age of Wonders: Planetfall 2019	Est. copies ≈ 193k–313k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	7k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
Rebel Inc: Escalation 2021	Est. copies ≈ 189k–307k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $778k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	8k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
ICBM 2020	Est. copies ≈ 48k–78k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $263k–$707k after Steam's cut $478k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	RTSCold War
Millennia 2024	Est. copies ≈ 94k–153k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	4k reviews Mixed	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy