How much revenue did Secret Government make?

$41k–$110k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Secret Government sell?

Q: How many copies did Secret Government sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 299 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $41k–$110k after Steam's cut $74k–$169k before Steam's cut; from 299 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 Secret Government and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Secret Government's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–187k

best case 418k (Secret World Legends)

Games like Secret Government

A typical game among these

≈ 60k–187k copies

≈ $326k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Secret World Legends at ≈ 319k–518k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 673 reviews in their first month; the range was 15 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Grand Strategy (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MMORPG + Lovecraftian.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 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 43 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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