How much revenue did Religion inc. make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Religion inc. sell?

Q: How many copies did Religion inc. sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 138 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$19k before the cut; from 138 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 Religion inc. out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Religion inc.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–118k

best case 1.2M (Mountain)

Games like Religion inc.

The middle of these games

≈ 32k–118k copies

≈ $46k–$488k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Mountain at ≈ 912k–1.5M copies, ≈ $248k–$668k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 228 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 524.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and God Game (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + God Game, priced around $1.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2021, 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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