How much revenue did Swords and Sandals Classic Collection make?

$238k–$640k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Swords and Sandals Classic Collection sell?

Q: How many copies did Swords and Sandals Classic Collection sell?

87k to 141k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 87k–141k; $238k–$640k after Steam's cut $433k–$985k before the cut; from 3k 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 Swords and Sandals Classic Collection out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Swords and Sandals Classic Collection's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 376k–1.2M

best case 1.2M (Stoneshard)

Games like Swords and Sandals Classic Collection

The middle of these games

≈ 376k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.2M–$7.0M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Stoneshard at ≈ 880k–1.4M copies, ≈ $6.0M–$16.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (5 of 8) and Turn-Based (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Survival, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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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