How much revenue did Cultist Simulator make?

$2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cultist Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Cultist Simulator sell?

430k to 698k copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 430k–698k; $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.8M before the cut; from 14k reviews (Mostly 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 Cultist Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cultist Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–5.7M

best case 6.4M (Balatro)

Games like Cultist Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–5.7M copies

≈ $11.8M–$59.4M after Steam's cut

from ~92k 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: Balatro at ≈ 4.9M–8.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Building (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of your 7 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 70 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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