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How many copies did Zeus + Poseidon sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 82k–133k
$225k–$606k after Steam's cut $410k–$933k before Steam's cut
from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Zeus + Poseidon and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zeus + Poseidon's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–31k
best case 74k (Land of the Vikings)
Games like Zeus + Poseidon

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–31k copies

≈ $31k–$241k after Steam's cut

from ~275 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Land of the Vikings at ≈ 56k–91k copies, ≈ $402k–$1.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 174 reviews in their first month; the range was 62 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Colony Sim (8 of 8) and City Builder (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Colony Sim + City Builder, priced around $26.
When they shipped
4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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