How much revenue did JudgeSim make?

$69k–$186k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did JudgeSim sell?

Q: How many copies did JudgeSim sell?

36k to 58k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 36k–58k; $69k–$186k after Steam's cut $126k–$286k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 JudgeSim and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including JudgeSim's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–9k

best case 22k (Legal Dungeon)

Games like JudgeSim

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–9k copies

≈ $3k–$34k after Steam's cut

from ~187 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Legal Dungeon at ≈ 17k–28k copies, ≈ $33k–$88k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 21 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 109.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Political (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Detective, priced around $7.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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