How much revenue did Port Royale 4 make?

$583k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Port Royale 4 sell?

Q: How many copies did Port Royale 4 sell?

53k to 86k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 53k–86k; $583k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut; from 2k 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 Port Royale 4 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Port Royale 4's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 517k–1.9M

best case 3.2M (Supermarket Together)

Games like Port Royale 4

The middle of these games

≈ 517k–1.9M copies

≈ $5.5M–$16.7M after Steam's cut

from ~22k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Supermarket Together at ≈ 2.4M–4.0M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Economy (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 3 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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