How much revenue did The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence make?

$13k–$35k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence sell?

Q: How many copies did The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 54 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before the cut; from 54 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 The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–3k

best case 298k (The Farmer Was Replaced)

Games like The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–3k copies

≈ $1k–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~69 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Farmer Was Replaced at ≈ 227k–369k copies, ≈ $623k–$1.7M 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 11 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 4k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Education (6 of 8) and Programming (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Programming, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 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 36 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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