How much revenue did Collapse: A Political Simulator make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Collapse: A Political Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Collapse: A Political Simulator sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 200 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before the cut; from 200 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 Collapse: A Political Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Collapse: A Political Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–457k

best case 1.1M (Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut)

Games like Collapse: A Political Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 37k–457k copies

≈ $97k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut at ≈ 837k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 40 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Choices Matter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choices Matter, priced around $18.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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