How much revenue did Advisors at the End of the Universe make?

$170–$459 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Advisors at the End of the Universe sell?

Q: How many copies did Advisors at the End of the Universe sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $170–$459 after Steam's cut $309–$706 before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Advisors at the End of the Universe out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Advisors at the End of the Universe's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 680k–1.2M

best case 3.0M (Manor Lords)

Games like Advisors at the End of the Universe

The middle of these games

≈ 680k–1.2M copies

≈ $5.9M–$12.0M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Manor Lords at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $24.8M–$66.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 49 to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (8 of 8) and City Builder (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $40.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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