How much revenue did You are the Judge! make?

$23k–$62k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did You are the Judge! sell?

Q: How many copies did You are the Judge! sell?

6k to 11k copies, based on its 261 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–11k; $23k–$62k after Steam's cut $42k–$96k before the cut; from 261 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 You are the Judge! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including You are the Judge!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 732–7k

best case 384k (Suzerain)

Games like You are the Judge!

The middle of these games

≈ 732–7k copies

≈ $3k–$23k after Steam's cut

from ~85 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: Suzerain at ≈ 292k–475k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.3M 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 24 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 856.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Political Sim (7 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Visual Novel + Text-Based + Choices Matter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 2 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 43 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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