How much revenue did Socialism Simulator make?

$8k–$21k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Socialism Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Socialism Simulator sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 284 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$32k before the cut; from 284 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 Socialism Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Socialism Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 320k–594k

best case 1.9M (Sid Meier's Civilization VII)

Games like Socialism Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 320k–594k copies

≈ $2.3M–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Political Sim (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Sid Meier's Civilization VII at ≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies, ≈ $27.9M–$75.0M 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 856 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Political Sim (4 of 8) and Female Protagonist (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Historical, priced around $70. The breakout hits carry Grand Strategy + Historical + 4X; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, 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 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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