How much revenue did Citystate make?

$102k–$274k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Citystate sell?

Q: How many copies did Citystate sell?

25k to 40k copies, based on its 814 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–40k; $102k–$274k after Steam's cut $185k–$422k before Steam's cut; from 814 reviews (Mostly 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 Citystate and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Citystate's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 820k–1.1M

best case 1.2M (Anno 1800)

Games like Citystate

A typical game among these

≈ 820k–1.1M copies

≈ $6.9M–$14.2M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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 7 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Anno 1800 at ≈ 935k–1.5M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (7 of 7) and Simulation (7 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, and 2 of the 7 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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Foundation 2025	Est. copies ≈ 608k–988k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$15.7M after Steam's cut $10.6M–$24.2M before Steam's cut	$34.99	25k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Simulation
Tropico 4 2011	Est. copies ≈ 807k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	13k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Simulation
Tropico 3 2009	Est. copies ≈ 123k–200k too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $339k–$911k after Steam's cut $616k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	SimulationStrategy
Anno 1800 2019	Est. copies ≈ 935k–1.5M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut $28.1M–$63.8M before Steam's cut	$59.99	32k reviews Very Positive	City BuilderStrategy
Frostpunk 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 674k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $8.3M–$22.4M after Steam's cut $15.2M–$34.5M before Steam's cut	$44.99	27k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyCity Builder
Tropico 5 2014	Est. copies ≈ 808k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.4M–$11.9M after Steam's cut $8.1M–$18.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	14k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyCity Builder
Dawn of Man 2019	Est. copies ≈ 514k–836k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.5M–$9.5M after Steam's cut $6.4M–$14.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	18k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Colony Sim