How much revenue did Norman's Great Illusion make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Norman's Great Illusion sell?

Q: How many copies did Norman's Great Illusion sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 42 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 42 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 Norman's Great Illusion and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Norman's Great Illusion's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.4M

best case 6.1M (Crusader Kings II)

Games like Norman's Great Illusion

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–1.4M copies

≈ $14.5M–$16.5M after Steam's cut

from ~27k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Crusader Kings II at ≈ 4.7M–7.6M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Political Sim (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Medieval, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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