How much revenue did I am not a Monster: First Contact make?

$119k–$320k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I am not a Monster: First Contact sell?

Q: How many copies did I am not a Monster: First Contact sell?

39k to 64k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–64k; $119k–$320k after Steam's cut $216k–$493k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 I am not a Monster: First Contact and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I am not a Monster: First Contact's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 756k–2.4M

best case 6.0M (XCOM® 2)

Games like I am not a Monster: First Contact

A typical game among these

≈ 756k–2.4M copies

≈ $6.4M–$28.8M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: XCOM® 2 at ≈ 4.6M–7.4M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Isometric + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, 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 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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