How many copies did The Council sell?

174k to 283k 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 players who have it: ≈ 174k–283k; from 6k reviews (Very 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 Council and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Council's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 549k–1.0M

best case 5.0M (Disco Elysium - The Final Cut)

Games like The Council

A typical game among these

≈ 549k–1.0M copies

≈ $3.4M–$7.1M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $41.7M–$112.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 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.
When they shipped: The similar games 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
The Wolf Among Us 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.1M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.5M–$28.2M after Steam's cut $19.1M–$43.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	40k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureDetective
Pathologic 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 352k–572k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.0M before Steam's 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 Steam's cut	$9.99	16k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterPolitical Sim
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M 8.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $41.7M–$112.0M after Steam's cut $75.8M–$172.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	132k reviews Very Positive	RPGStory Rich
Batman - The Telltale Series 2016	Est. copies ≈ 761k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$13.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	18k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterAdventure
Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series 2017	Est. copies ≈ 369k–600k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	11k reviews Very Positive	AdventureStory Rich
This Is the Police 2016	Est. copies ≈ 468k–760k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	11k reviews Very Positive	StrategyManagement
Heavy Rain 2020	Est. copies ≈ 788k–1.3M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.7M after Steam's cut $7.9M–$17.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	32k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterStory Rich