How much revenue did Top Villain: Total Domination make?

$939–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Top Villain: Total Domination sell?

Q: How many copies did Top Villain: Total Domination 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; $939–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k 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 Top Villain: Total Domination and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Top Villain: Total Domination's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 291k–369k

best case 428k (The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante)

Games like Top Villain: Total Domination

A typical game among these

≈ 291k–369k copies

≈ $2.4M–$4.1M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante at ≈ 326k–529k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 3k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Text-Based (8 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $20.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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