How much revenue did For the People make?

$95k–$254k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did For the People sell?

Q: How many copies did For the People sell?

20k to 33k copies, based on its 816 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–33k; $95k–$254k after Steam's cut $172k–$391k before the cut; from 816 reviews (Mostly 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 For the People out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including For the People's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–137k

best case 384k (Suzerain)

Games like For the People

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–137k copies

≈ $20k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~248 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Suzerain at ≈ 292k–475k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 75 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 856.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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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