How much revenue did City Limits make?

$681–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did City Limits sell?

Q: How many copies did City Limits sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $681–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 20 reviews (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 City Limits and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including City Limits's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 126k–373k

best case 627k (A Little to the Left)

Games like City Limits

A typical game among these

≈ 126k–373k copies

≈ $179k–$1.6M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Little to the Left at ≈ 478k–777k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 405 reviews in their first month; the range was 54 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Cozy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $15.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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