How much revenue did Captain of Industry make?

$2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Captain of Industry sell?

Q: How many copies did Captain of Industry sell?

284k to 462k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 284k–462k; $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.3M before the cut; from 11k 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 Captain of Industry out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Captain of Industry's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 395k–4.1M

best case 7.6M (Factorio)

Games like Captain of Industry

The middle of these games

≈ 395k–4.1M copies

≈ $4.6M–$43.0M after Steam's cut

from ~53k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Factorio at ≈ 5.8M–9.4M copies, ≈ $55.8M–$150.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automation (4 of 4) and Base-Building (3 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Base-Building, priced around $35.
The era: 2 of your 4 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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