How much revenue did Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak make?

$407–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak sell?

Q: How many copies did Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $407–$1k after Steam's cut $740–$2k before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–250k

best case 3.6M (Plague Inc: Evolved)

Games like Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–250k copies

≈ $16k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~779 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Plague Inc: Evolved at ≈ 2.7M–4.5M copies, ≈ $11.3M–$30.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 43 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 7k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Outbreak Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Outbreak Sim, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, 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 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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