How much revenue did SCP Strategy make?

$28k–$76k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SCP Strategy sell?

Q: How many copies did SCP Strategy sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 590 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $28k–$76k after Steam's cut $51k–$116k before the cut; from 590 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 SCP Strategy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SCP Strategy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–49k

best case 457k (Nodebuster)

Games like SCP Strategy

The middle of these games

≈ 39k–49k copies

≈ $209k–$298k 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

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

Best case: Nodebuster at ≈ 348k–566k copies, ≈ $286k–$770k 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 585 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 284 to 947.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Management (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $12.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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