How much revenue did CorpoNation: The Sorting Process make?

$12k–$32k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CorpoNation: The Sorting Process sell?

Q: How many copies did CorpoNation: The Sorting Process sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 136 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $22k–$50k before Steam's cut; from 136 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 CorpoNation: The Sorting Process and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CorpoNation: The Sorting Process's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 99k–326k

best case 6.7M (Papers, Please)

Games like CorpoNation: The Sorting Process

A typical game among these

≈ 99k–326k copies

≈ $157k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Papers, Please at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $14.0M–$37.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 1k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Dystopian (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Political + Simulation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, 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 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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Papers, Please 2013	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.3M 18x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $14.0M–$37.6M after Steam's cut $25.5M–$57.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	81k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IndiePolitical
Primate Signal 2020	Est. copies ≈ 372–605 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $512–$1k after Steam's cut $930–$2k before Steam's cut	$5.00	15 reviews Positive	Visual NovelPhilosophical
FACEMINER 2025	Est. copies ≈ 39k–63k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $85k–$229k after Steam's cut $155k–$352k before Steam's cut	$7.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ClickerSimulation
Blêktre 2081 2025	Est. copies ≈ 422–685 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$8.99	17 reviews Positive	Asynchronous MultiplayerImmersive Sim
Dune: Imperium 2024	Est. copies ≈ 109k–178k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $691k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut	$22.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Board GameStrategy
Beholder 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 248k–404k 1.9x 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
Make America Great Again: The Trump Presidency 2016	Est. copies ≈ 75k–122k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $62k–$167k after Steam's cut $113k–$256k before Steam's cut	$2.99	2k reviews Very Positive	MemesPost-apocalyptic
No Place for the Dissident 2020	Est. copies ≈ 595–967 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $653–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$3.99	24 reviews Mixed	Political SimDystopian