How much revenue did Gladiator Guild Manager make?

$416k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gladiator Guild Manager sell?

Q: How many copies did Gladiator Guild Manager sell?

101k to 164k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 101k–164k; $416k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $757k–$1.7M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Very 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 Gladiator Guild Manager out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gladiator Guild Manager's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 84k–225k

best case 375k (Luck be a Landlord)

Games like Gladiator Guild Manager

The middle of these games

≈ 84k–225k copies

≈ $736k–$1.2M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Management (4 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: Luck be a Landlord at ≈ 286k–464k copies, ≈ $785k–$2.1M 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 655 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Deckbuilding, priced around $10.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 38 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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