How much revenue did Citystate make?

$102k–$274k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Citystate sell?

Q: How many copies did Citystate sell?

25k to 40k copies, based on its 813 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–40k; $102k–$274k after Steam's cut $185k–$421k before the cut; from 813 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 Citystate out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Citystate's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 809k–1.1M

best case 1.2M (Anno 1800)

Games like Citystate

The middle of these games

≈ 809k–1.1M copies

≈ $8.7M–$14.1M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

All 7 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Anno 1800 at ≈ 927k–1.5M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (7 of 7) and Simulation (7 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, and 2 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 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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