How much revenue did Manor Lords make?

$24.8M–$66.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Manor Lords sell?

Q: How many copies did Manor Lords sell?

2.3M to 3.7M copies, based on its 91k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.3M–3.7M; $24.8M–$66.6M after Steam's cut $45.0M–$102.4M before the cut; from 91k 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 Manor Lords out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Manor Lords's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 895k–1.6M

best case 3.2M (Banished)

Games like Manor Lords

The middle of these games

≈ 895k–1.6M copies

≈ $13.2M–$21.8M after Steam's cut

from ~30k 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: Banished at ≈ 2.4M–3.9M copies, ≈ $13.3M–$35.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (7 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Colony Sim, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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