How much revenue did Collapse: A Political Simulator make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Collapse: A Political Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Collapse: A Political Simulator sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 201 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $17k–$40k before Steam's cut; from 201 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 Collapse: A Political Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Collapse: A Political Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–459k

best case 1.1M (Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut)

Games like Collapse: A Political Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 37k–459k copies

≈ $97k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut at ≈ 856k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 40 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Choices Matter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choices Matter, priced around $18.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut 2023	Est. copies ≈ 856k–1.4M 8.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before Steam's cut	$17.99	35k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelChoices Matter
Suzerain 2020	Est. copies ≈ 296k–481k 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelChoose Your Own Adventure
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