How many copies did Not For Broadcast: Prologue sell?

22k to 36k copies, based on its 767 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Not For Broadcast: Prologue make?

Not For Broadcast: Prologue is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Not For Broadcast: Prologue?

Estimated owners: ≈ 22k–36k; from 767 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 Not For Broadcast: Prologue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Not For Broadcast: Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 505–723

best case 52k (Plutocracy)

Games like Not For Broadcast: Prologue

The middle of these games

≈ 505–723 copies

≈ $2k–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~18 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Plutocracy at ≈ 40k–64k copies, ≈ $272k–$731k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 55 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 147.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Political (5 of 8) and Political Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Time Management, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Politics + Sandbox + Economy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 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 38 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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