How much revenue did Secret Government make?

$41k–$110k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Secret Government sell?

Q: How many copies did Secret Government sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 301 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $41k–$110k after Steam's cut $75k–$170k before the cut; from 301 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–186k

best case 417k (Secret World Legends)

Games like Secret Government

The middle of these games

≈ 60k–186k copies

≈ $326k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Secret World Legends at ≈ 318k–517k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 673 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Grand Strategy (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MMORPG + Lovecraftian.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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