How much revenue did New Citizen - Alpha make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did New Citizen - Alpha sell?

Q: How many copies did New Citizen - Alpha sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 18 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 New Citizen - Alpha and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including New Citizen - Alpha's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 716–13k

best case 183k (江湖十一)

Games like New Citizen - Alpha

A typical game among these

≈ 716–13k copies

≈ $3k–$56k after Steam's cut

from ~76 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: 江湖十一 at ≈ 139k–226k copies, ≈ $689k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 27 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 5k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (6 of 8) and Immersive Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Story Rich, priced around $18.
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 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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