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How many copies did KAISERPUNK sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 23k–38k
$192k–$516k after Steam's cut $349k–$794k before Steam's cut
from 938 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 KAISERPUNK and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including KAISERPUNK's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–34k
best case 75k (Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition )
Games like KAISERPUNK

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–34k copies

≈ $63k–$562k after Steam's cut

from ~760 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: Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition at ≈ 57k–93k copies, ≈ $784k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 302 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share City Builder (6 of 8) and Management (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with 4X + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 3 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 38 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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