How much revenue did Beholder 3 make?

$348k–$937k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Beholder 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Beholder 3 sell?

70k to 114k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 70k–114k; $348k–$937k after Steam's cut $633k–$1.4M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mixed)

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 Beholder 3 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beholder 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 368k–809k

best case 1.7M (Beholder)

Games like Beholder 3

The middle of these games

≈ 368k–809k copies

≈ $2.3M–$7.5M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

Best case: Beholder at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.0M–$13.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Political Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dystopian + Choices Matter, priced around $14.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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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