How much revenue did The Customer is Always Right! make?

$14–$36 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Customer is Always Right! sell?

Q: How many copies did The Customer is Always Right! sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before the cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Thin evidence: 2 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 The Customer is Always Right! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Customer is Always Right!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 230k–625k

best case 9.3M (Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition)

Games like The Customer is Always Right!

The middle of these games

≈ 230k–625k copies

≈ $2.4M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition at ≈ 7.1M–11.5M copies, ≈ $87.4M–$235.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on CRPG (8 of 8) and Tactical RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $45.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 61 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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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.1M–11.5M 25x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $87.4M–$235.0M after Steam's cut $158.9M–$361.6M before the cut	$44.99	205k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tactical RPGRPG
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Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game 2023	Est. copies ≈ 104k–169k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before the cut	$39.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Turn-BasedTactical RPG
The Age of Decadence 2015	Est. copies ≈ 197k–321k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $813k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based CombatChoices Matter
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