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How many copies did Godhood sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 27k–44k
$200k–$539k after Steam's cut $364k–$829k before the cut
from 1k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Godhood out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Godhood's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 879–34k
best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)
Games like Godhood

The middle of these games

≈ 879–34k copies

≈ $3k–$66k after Steam's cut

from ~179 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.4M–$315.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 149 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 799.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and God Game (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Building + Sandbox + Moddable; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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