How much revenue did Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak make?

$407–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak sell?

Q: How many copies did Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $407–$1k after Steam's cut $740–$2k before the cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Thin evidence: 3 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 Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–247k

best case 3.6M (Plague Inc: Evolved)

Games like Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–247k copies

≈ $16k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~774 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Plague Inc: Evolved at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $11.2M–$30.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 43 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 7k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Outbreak Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Outbreak Sim, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, 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 52 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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