How much revenue did I Had a Plan! make?

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

How many copies did I Had a Plan! sell?

Q: How many copies did I Had a Plan! sell?

570 to 927 copies, based on its 23 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 570–927; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 23 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 I Had a Plan! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I Had a Plan!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 379k–485k

best case 799k (Marvel's Midnight Suns)

Games like I Had a Plan!

A typical game among these

≈ 379k–485k copies

≈ $4.0M–$8.4M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Marvel's Midnight Suns at ≈ 609k–990k copies, ≈ $10.0M–$27.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (8 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Superhero + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $60.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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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