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How many copies did DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 843–1k
$3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut
from 34 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–12.9M
best case 20.6M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)
Games like DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–12.9M copies

≈ $43.1M–$210.7M after Steam's cut

from ~140k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI at ≈ 15.7M–25.6M copies, ≈ $259.5M–$697.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12k to 35k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Grand Strategy (7 of 8) and 4X (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Historical, priced around $60.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, 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 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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