How many copies did The Council sell?

174k to 282k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did The Council make?

The Council is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is The Council?

Estimated owners: ≈ 174k–282k; from 6k reviews (Very 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 The Council out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Council's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 548k–1.0M

best case 4.9M (Disco Elysium - The Final Cut)

Games like The Council

The middle of these games

≈ 548k–1.0M copies

≈ $3.4M–$7.0M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut at ≈ 3.8M–6.1M copies, ≈ $41.5M–$111.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Choices Matter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Isometric + RPG + Atmospheric; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2020, 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 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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The Wolf Among Us 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.1M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.5M–$28.1M after Steam's cut $19.0M–$43.3M before the cut	$14.99	40k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureDetective
Pathologic 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 350k–570k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut $6.1M–$14.0M before the cut	$34.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Story RichAtmospheric
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You 2016	Est. copies ≈ 648k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.4M before the cut	$9.99	16k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterPolitical Sim
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.1M 8.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $41.5M–$111.5M after Steam's cut $75.4M–$171.5M before the cut	$39.99	131k reviews Very Positive	RPGStory Rich
Batman - The Telltale Series 2016	Est. copies ≈ 758k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$12.9M before the cut	$14.99	18k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterAdventure
Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series 2017	Est. copies ≈ 368k–598k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before the cut	$14.99	11k reviews Very Positive	AdventureStory Rich
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Heavy Rain 2020	Est. copies ≈ 776k–1.3M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut $7.8M–$17.6M before the cut	$19.99	31k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterStory Rich