How much revenue did Underworld Overseer make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Underworld Overseer sell?

Q: How many copies did Underworld Overseer sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 54 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before Steam's cut; from 54 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 Underworld Overseer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Underworld Overseer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–246k

best case 1.9M (WorldBox - God Simulator)

Games like Underworld Overseer

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–246k copies

≈ $29k–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~965 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: WorldBox - God Simulator at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$20.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 221 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share God Game (7 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + God Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 3 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 43 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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