How much revenue did China: Mao's legacy make?

$58k–$156k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did China: Mao's legacy sell?

Q: How many copies did China: Mao's legacy sell?

30k to 49k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–49k; $58k–$156k after Steam's cut $105k–$240k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 China: Mao's legacy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including China: Mao's legacy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–3.1M

best case 11.1M (Europa Universalis IV)

Games like China: Mao's legacy

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–3.1M copies

≈ $11.7M–$47.1M after Steam's cut

from ~56k 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: Europa Universalis IV at ≈ 8.5M–13.8M copies, ≈ $116.6M–$313.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 19k to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Grand Strategy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Historical, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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