How much revenue did Mr.President! make?

$637k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mr.President! sell?

Q: How many copies did Mr.President! sell?

232k to 377k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 232k–377k; $637k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.6M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Mr.President! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mr.President!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.4M–5.7M

best case 7.6M (Far Cry® 5)

Games like Mr.President!

A typical game among these

≈ 3.4M–5.7M copies

≈ $20.5M–$73.0M after Steam's cut

from ~136k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Simulation (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Far Cry® 5 at ≈ 5.8M–9.4M copies, ≈ $95.1M–$255.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 122 reviews in their first month; the range was 46 to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (4 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Action-Adventure, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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Far Cry® 5 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.8M–9.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $95.1M–$255.6M after Steam's cut $172.9M–$393.3M before Steam's cut	$59.99	190k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction-Adventure
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