How much revenue did Sovereign Brain Empire make?

$32k–$85k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sovereign Brain Empire sell?

Q: How many copies did Sovereign Brain Empire sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 466 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $32k–$85k after Steam's cut $58k–$131k before Steam's cut; from 466 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 Sovereign Brain Empire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sovereign Brain Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 116k–150k

best case 419k (Late Shift)

Games like Sovereign Brain Empire

A typical game among these

≈ 116k–150k copies

≈ $404k–$674k after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Late Shift at ≈ 319k–518k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 470 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FMV (8 of 8) and Choices Matter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FMV + Multiple Endings, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Multiple Endings + Romance + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
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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