How much revenue did Evil Genius make?

$627k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Evil Genius sell?

Q: How many copies did Evil Genius sell?

228k to 371k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 228k–371k; $627k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Evil Genius and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Evil Genius's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 317k–602k

best case 2.3M (NBA 2K20)

Games like Evil Genius

A typical game among these

≈ 317k–602k copies

≈ $2.3M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: NBA 2K20 at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Basketball + Sports.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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