How much revenue did Melania make?

$920–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Melania sell?

Q: How many copies did Melania sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $920–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 27 reviews (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 Melania out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Melania's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 175k–260k

best case 835k (Contraband Police)

Games like Melania

The middle of these games

≈ 175k–260k copies

≈ $1.6M–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

Best case: Contraband Police at ≈ 636k–1.0M copies, ≈ $5.2M–$14.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 606 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Immersive Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Simulation, priced around $30.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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