How much revenue did The Political Machine 2024 make?

$36k–$98k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Political Machine 2024 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Political Machine 2024 sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 267 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $36k–$98k after Steam's cut $66k–$151k before the cut; from 267 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 The Political Machine 2024 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Political Machine 2024's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–24k

best case 4.7M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like The Political Machine 2024

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–24k copies

≈ $36k–$180k after Steam's cut

from ~282 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: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.8M copies, ≈ $48.8M–$131.2M 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 151 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Political Sim (6 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Character Customization, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Character Customization + Sports + Golf; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 1 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 79 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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