How much revenue did DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG sell?

Q: How many copies did DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG sell?

843 to 1k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 843–1k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 34 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 DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–12.7M

best case 20.7M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)

Games like DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG

A typical game among these

≈ 1.8M–12.7M copies

≈ $45.7M–$209.5M after Steam's cut

from ~138k 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: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI at ≈ 15.8M–25.7M copies, ≈ $260.5M–$700.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the range was 12k to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Grand Strategy (7 of 8) and 4X (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Historical, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, and 2 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Sid Meier's Civilization® V 2010	Est. copies ≈ 13.3M–21.7M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $110.0M–$295.6M after Steam's cut $199.9M–$454.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	211k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Turn-Based StrategyStrategy
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.8M–25.7M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $260.5M–$700.4M after Steam's cut $473.7M–$1077.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	380k reviews Very Positive	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
Stellaris 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut $204.7M–$465.6M before Steam's cut	$49.99	197k reviews Very Positive	SpaceGrand Strategy
Crusader Kings III 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut $88.4M–$201.1M before Steam's cut	$49.99	143k reviews Very Positive	StrategyMedieval
Sid Meier's Civilization VII 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $29.7M–$79.9M after Steam's cut $54.1M–$123.0M before Steam's cut	$69.99	62k reviews Mixed	Grand StrategyHistorical
HUMANKIND™ 2021	Est. copies ≈ 715k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.8M–$26.4M after Steam's cut $17.9M–$40.7M before Steam's cut	$49.99	29k reviews Mixed	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic 2024	Est. copies ≈ 682k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.2M after Steam's cut $13.6M–$31.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	27k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
Europa Universalis IV 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.5M–13.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $116.6M–$313.5M after Steam's cut $212.0M–$482.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	134k reviews Very Positive	Grand StrategyStrategy