How much revenue did Reprisal Universe make?

$43k–$116k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Reprisal Universe sell?

Q: How many copies did Reprisal Universe sell?

23k to 37k copies, based on its 402 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–37k; $43k–$116k after Steam's cut $79k–$179k before Steam's cut; from 402 reviews (Mostly 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 Reprisal Universe and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Reprisal Universe's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 80k–521k

best case 522k (Stonehearth)

Games like Reprisal Universe

A typical game among these

≈ 80k–521k copies

≈ $607k–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Stonehearth at ≈ 398k–646k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 275 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (6 of 8) and Management (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + City Builder, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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 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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War for the Overworld 2015	Est. copies ≈ 397k–645k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerBase-Building
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Stonehearth 2018	Est. copies ≈ 398k–646k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	13k reviews Mostly Positive	Colony Sim City Builder
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