How much revenue did City Limits make?

$681–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did City Limits sell?

Q: How many copies did City Limits sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $681–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 20 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 City Limits out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including City Limits's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 125k–368k

best case 618k (A Little to the Left)

Games like City Limits

The middle of these games

≈ 125k–368k copies

≈ $178k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Little to the Left at ≈ 471k–765k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 406 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 54 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Cozy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $15.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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 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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