How much revenue did Precipice make?

$21k–$55k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Precipice sell?

Q: How many copies did Precipice sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 325 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $21k–$55k after Steam's cut $37k–$85k before Steam's cut; from 325 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 Precipice and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Precipice's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–162k

best case 163k (Twilight Struggle)

Games like Precipice

A typical game among these

≈ 40k–162k copies

≈ $107k–$625k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Twilight Struggle at ≈ 124k–202k copies, ≈ $342k–$919k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cold War (6 of 8) and Political Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game + Tabletop, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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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