How many copies did Gods and Idols sell?

32k to 51k copies, based on its 758 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Gods and Idols make?

Gods and Idols is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Gods and Idols?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 32k–51k; from 758 reviews (Mixed)

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 Gods and Idols and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gods and Idols's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–8.4M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Gods and Idols

A typical game among these

≈ 2.7M–8.4M copies

≈ $44.4M–$172.8M after Steam's cut

from ~71k 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: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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