How much revenue did Political Animals make?

$33k–$89k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Political Animals sell?

Q: How many copies did Political Animals sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 192 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $33k–$89k after Steam's cut $60k–$136k before the cut; from 192 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 Political Animals out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Political Animals's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.9M

best case 6.1M (Crusader Kings II)

Games like Political Animals

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies

≈ $14.2M–$17.2M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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: Crusader Kings II at ≈ 4.7M–7.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Political Sim (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Medieval.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2022, and none of them 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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