How much revenue did Civilization Simulator make?

$143–$384 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Civilization Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Civilization Simulator sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $143–$384 after Steam's cut $260–$590 before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–137k

best case 319k (Terra Invicta)

Games like Civilization Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–137k copies

≈ $143k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Terra Invicta at ≈ 243k–395k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 625 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 78 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Alternate History (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Grand Strategy, priced around $40.
The era: 4 of your 8 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 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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