How much revenue did USA 2020 make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did USA 2020 sell?

Q: How many copies did USA 2020 sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 260 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before the cut; from 260 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 USA 2020 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including USA 2020's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 210k–540k

best case 20.5M (Hearts of Iron IV)

Games like USA 2020

The middle of these games

≈ 210k–540k copies

≈ $606k–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Bullet Hell (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Hearts of Iron IV at ≈ 15.6M–25.4M copies, ≈ $214.5M–$576.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (3 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with World War II + Grand Strategy, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Strategy + World War II + Grand Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 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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