How much revenue did John Christian 3.0 make?

$393–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did John Christian 3.0 sell?

Q: How many copies did John Christian 3.0 sell?

719 to 1k copies, based on its 29 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 719–1k; $393–$1k after Steam's cut $715–$2k before the cut; from 29 reviews (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 John Christian 3.0 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including John Christian 3.0's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–9k

best case 45k (Hitler Waifu)

Games like John Christian 3.0

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–9k copies

≈ $18k–$60k after Steam's cut

from ~224 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Hitler Waifu at ≈ 34k–56k copies, ≈ $9k–$25k 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 101 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 35 to 135.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (7 of 8) and Wargame (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Casual + Arena Shooter + Arcade; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 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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