How much revenue did The Cold War Era make?

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

How many copies did The Cold War Era sell?

Q: How many copies did The Cold War Era sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 26 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 $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 26 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 The Cold War Era and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Cold War Era's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–90k

best case 6.1M (Crusader Kings II)

Games like The Cold War Era

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–90k copies

≈ $33k–$117k after Steam's cut

from ~889 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crusader Kings II at ≈ 4.7M–7.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Cold War (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Medieval.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, 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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