How much revenue did Song of Iron make?

$67k–$181k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Song of Iron sell?

Q: How many copies did Song of Iron sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 494 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $67k–$181k after Steam's cut $122k–$279k before the cut; from 494 reviews (Mostly 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 Song of Iron out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Song of Iron's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 22k–28k

best case 163k (Nocturnal)

Games like Song of Iron

The middle of these games

≈ 22k–28k copies

≈ $56k–$113k after Steam's cut

from ~657 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Nocturnal at ≈ 124k–201k copies, ≈ $579k–$1.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 227 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 72 to 422.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + Action-Adventure, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Linear + Narration + Hand-drawn; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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