How many copies did Gods and Idols sell?

32k to 51k copies, based on its 758 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Gods and Idols make?

Gods and Idols is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Gods and Idols?

Estimated owners: ≈ 32k–51k; from 758 reviews (Mixed)

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 Gods and Idols out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gods and Idols's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–8.4M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Gods and Idols

The middle of these games

≈ 2.7M–8.4M copies

≈ $44.3M–$172.9M after Steam's cut

from ~70k 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: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.4M–$315.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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