How much revenue did Trump Trade War make?

$502–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Trump Trade War sell?

Q: How many copies did Trump Trade War sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 918–1k; $502–$1k after Steam's cut $913–$2k before the cut; from 37 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Trump Trade War out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Trump Trade War's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.6M–9.1M

best case 9.1M (theHunter: Call of the Wild™)

Games like Trump Trade War

The middle of these games

≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies

≈ $41.6M–$69.3M after Steam's cut

from ~124k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: theHunter: Call of the Wild™ at ≈ 7.0M–11.3M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hunting + Open World.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 70 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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theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.3M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	202k reviews Very Positive	HuntingOpen World
CowboysShowdown 2022	Est. copies ≈ 570–927 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before the cut	$24.99	23 reviews Mixed	ActionCasual
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