How many copies did Sid Classic sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 136 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Sid Classic make?

Sid Classic is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Sid Classic?

Estimated owners: ≈ 3k–5k; from 136 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 Sid Classic out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sid Classic's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–132k

best case 564k (Cultist Simulator)

Games like Sid Classic

The middle of these games

≈ 12k–132k copies

≈ $130k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~546 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cultist Simulator at ≈ 430k–698k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 264 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 43 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Card Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Choices Matter, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 1 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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