How much revenue did The Customer is Always Right! make?

$14–$36 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Customer is Always Right! sell?

Q: How many copies did The Customer is Always Right! sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 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 The Customer is Always Right! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Customer is Always Right!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 231k–628k

best case 9.3M (Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition)

Games like The Customer is Always Right!

A typical game among these

≈ 231k–628k copies

≈ $2.4M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition at ≈ 7.1M–11.5M copies, ≈ $87.8M–$236.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share CRPG (8 of 8) and Tactical RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $45.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 61 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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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.1M–11.5M 25x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $87.8M–$236.1M after Steam's cut $159.6M–$363.2M before Steam's cut	$44.99	206k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tactical RPGRPG
RPG Fitness VR 2023	Est. copies ≈ 223–363 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	9 reviews 9 user reviews	Early AccessVR
TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children 2020	Est. copies ≈ 246k–399k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	10k reviews Very Positive	CRPGTactical RPG
Wasteland 3 2020	Est. copies ≈ 557k–904k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.1M–$16.5M after Steam's cut $11.1M–$25.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	22k reviews Very Positive	CRPGCharacter Customization
Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game 2023	Est. copies ≈ 107k–173k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Turn-BasedTactical RPG
The Age of Decadence 2015	Est. copies ≈ 198k–322k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $818k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based CombatChoices Matter
Expeditions: Rome 2022	Est. copies ≈ 169k–274k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.6M after Steam's cut $3.8M–$8.6M before Steam's cut	$44.99	7k reviews Very Positive	RPGStrategy
Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim 2023	Est. copies ≈ 74–121 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $102–$275 after Steam's cut $185–$423 before Steam's cut	$4.99	3 reviews 3 user reviews	LovecraftianCRPG