How much revenue did The Political Machine 2020 make?

The Political Machine 2020 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Political Machine 2020 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Political Machine 2020 sell?

18k to 30k copies, based on its 739 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–30k; from 739 reviews (Very 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 The Political Machine 2020 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Political Machine 2020's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 418k–1.1M

best case 1.6M (Pacify)

Games like The Political Machine 2020

The middle of these games

≈ 418k–1.1M copies

≈ $3.1M–$4.4M 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.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Pacify at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 364 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 57 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (3 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 3 of your 8 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 52 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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