How much revenue did Top Villain: Total Domination make?

$939–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Top Villain: Total Domination sell?

Q: How many copies did Top Villain: Total Domination sell?

570 to 927 copies, based on its 23 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 570–927; $939–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 23 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 Top Villain: Total Domination out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Top Villain: Total Domination's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 289k–361k

best case 413k (The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante)

Games like Top Villain: Total Domination

The middle of these games

≈ 289k–361k copies

≈ $2.3M–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante at ≈ 315k–512k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 3k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Text-Based (8 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $20.
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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