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How many copies did Magocracy: Experimentation sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$340–$918 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before Steam's cut
from 5 reviews (5 user reviews)
Only 5 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 Magocracy: Experimentation and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Magocracy: Experimentation's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–2.6M
best case 2.4M (Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition)
Games like Magocracy: Experimentation

A typical game among these

≈ 1.7M–2.6M copies

≈ $14.7M–$37.0M after Steam's cut

from ~34k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $29.9M–$80.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
The games that made it here had under 73k reviews in their first month.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Flight (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Flight, priced around $60.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 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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