How much revenue did Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You make?

$1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You sell?

Q: How many copies did Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You sell?

648k to 1.1M copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 648k–1.1M; $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.4M before Steam's cut; from 16k 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 Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 210k–1.0M

best case 1.7M (Beholder)

Games like Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You

A typical game among these

≈ 210k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.5M–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Beholder at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.0M–$13.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dystopian (3 of 3) and Political Sim (3 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dystopian + Choices Matter, priced around $14.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Beholder 3 2022	Est. copies ≈ 71k–116k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $352k–$946k after Steam's cut $640k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$17.99	3k reviews Mixed	Political SimSimulation
Beholder 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 248k–404k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M before Steam's cut	$17.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Dystopian Strategy
Beholder 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.0M–$13.4M after Steam's cut $9.1M–$20.6M before Steam's cut	$13.99	31k reviews Very Positive	Dystopian Choices Matter