How much revenue did Sovereign Brain Empire make?

$31k–$84k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sovereign Brain Empire sell?

Q: How many copies did Sovereign Brain Empire sell?

11k to 19k copies, based on its 461 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–19k; $31k–$84k after Steam's cut $57k–$130k before the cut; from 461 reviews (Very 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 Sovereign Brain Empire out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sovereign Brain Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 116k–149k

best case 418k (Late Shift)

Games like Sovereign Brain Empire

The middle of these games

≈ 116k–149k copies

≈ $402k–$671k after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Late Shift at ≈ 318k–517k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 471 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FMV (8 of 8) and Choices Matter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FMV + Multiple Endings, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Multiple Endings + Romance + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 3 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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