How much revenue did The Political Machine 2024 make?

$37k–$99k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Political Machine 2024 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Political Machine 2024 sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 270 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $37k–$99k after Steam's cut $67k–$152k before Steam's cut; from 270 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 The Political Machine 2024 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Political Machine 2024's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–24k

best case 4.6M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like The Political Machine 2024

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–24k copies

≈ $36k–$180k after Steam's cut

from ~283 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 151 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Political Sim (6 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Character Customization, priced around $55. The breakout hits carry Character Customization + Sports + Golf; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, 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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