How much revenue did GhostControl Inc. make?

$53k–$142k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did GhostControl Inc. sell?

Q: How many copies did GhostControl Inc. sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 180 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $53k–$142k after Steam's cut $96k–$218k before the cut; from 180 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left GhostControl Inc. out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including GhostControl Inc.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 807k–1.4M

best case 6.0M (XCOM® 2)

Games like GhostControl Inc.

The middle of these games

≈ 807k–1.4M copies

≈ $9.1M–$24.3M after Steam's cut

from ~24k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: XCOM® 2 at ≈ 4.6M–7.4M copies, ≈ $25.0M–$67.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Tactics (7 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Isometric + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Isometric + Military + PvE; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 52 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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