How much revenue did Pandemic Crisis make?

$183–$494 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pandemic Crisis sell?

Q: How many copies did Pandemic Crisis sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $183–$494 after Steam's cut $333–$760 before the cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Thin evidence: 9 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 Pandemic Crisis out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pandemic Crisis's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 147–3k

best case 35k (Shadows of Forbidden Gods)

Games like Pandemic Crisis

The middle of these games

≈ 147–3k copies

≈ $361–$16k after Steam's cut

from ~21 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.

Best case: Shadows of Forbidden Gods at ≈ 26k–43k copies, ≈ $145k–$389k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 573.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Outbreak Sim (7 of 8) and Grand Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + God Game, priced around $20.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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