How much revenue did Overlord™ make?

$584k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Overlord™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Overlord™ sell?

426k to 692k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 426k–692k; $584k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut; from 7k 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 Overlord™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Overlord™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–145k

best case 727k (Tyranny)

Games like Overlord™

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–145k copies

≈ $154k–$552k after Steam's cut

from ~895 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Dark Fantasy (3 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: Tyranny at ≈ 554k–900k copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 308 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 228 to 471.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark Fantasy (3 of 8) and Fantasy (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2025, 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 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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