How much revenue did Lawgivers make?

$20k–$53k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lawgivers sell?

Q: How many copies did Lawgivers sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 415 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $20k–$53k after Steam's cut $36k–$82k before the cut; from 415 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 Lawgivers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lawgivers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 324k–594k

best case 1.7M (Beholder)

Games like Lawgivers

The middle of these games

≈ 324k–594k copies

≈ $2.3M–$3.1M 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 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Beholder at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.0M–$13.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Political Sim (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Political Sim, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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