How much revenue did Royal Merchant make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Royal Merchant sell?

Q: How many copies did Royal Merchant sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 86 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut; from 86 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 Royal Merchant out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Royal Merchant's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–60k

best case 2.5M (Minion Masters)

Games like Royal Merchant

The middle of these games

≈ 27k–60k copies

≈ $153k–$316k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Minion Masters at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 319 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 517.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Battler (5 of 8) and Tactical RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + 2D + Management; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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