How much revenue did Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You make?

$1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You sell?

Q: How many copies did Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You sell?

647k to 1.1M copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 647k–1.1M; $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.4M before the cut; from 16k 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 Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 208k–1.0M

best case 1.7M (Beholder)

Games like Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You

The middle of these games

≈ 208k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.4M–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Beholder at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.0M–$13.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dystopian (3 of 3) and Political Sim (3 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dystopian + Choices Matter, priced around $14.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Beholder 3 2022	Est. copies ≈ 70k–114k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $348k–$937k after Steam's cut $633k–$1.4M before the cut	$17.99	3k reviews Mixed	Political SimSimulation
Beholder 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 247k–401k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M before the cut	$17.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Dystopian Strategy
Beholder 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.0M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before the cut	$13.99	31k reviews Very Positive	Dystopian Choices Matter