How much revenue did International Affairs make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did International Affairs sell?

Q: How many copies did International Affairs sell?

346 to 562 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 346–562; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 12 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left International Affairs out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including International Affairs's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.3M–5.1M

best case 7.3M (鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal)

Games like International Affairs

The middle of these games

≈ 3.3M–5.1M copies

≈ $26.4M–$64.1M after Steam's cut

from ~93k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $30.6M–$82.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 23k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 953 to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Sandbox (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 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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