How much revenue did Jesus Christ Simulator make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Jesus Christ Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Jesus Christ Simulator sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 231 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 231 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 Jesus Christ Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Jesus Christ Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–19k

best case 799k (Marvel's Midnight Suns)

Games like Jesus Christ Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–19k copies

≈ $6k–$93k after Steam's cut

from ~140 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is God Game (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Marvel's Midnight Suns at ≈ 609k–990k copies, ≈ $10.0M–$27.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 28 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 5k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share God Game (4 of 8) and Supernatural (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Superhero + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Turn-Based Tactics + Deckbuilding + Turn-Based Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, 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 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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