How much revenue did Perennial Order make?

$108k–$290k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Perennial Order sell?

Q: How many copies did Perennial Order sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 791 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $108k–$290k after Steam's cut $196k–$446k before the cut; from 791 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 Perennial Order out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Perennial Order's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–12.3M

best case 37.5M (ELDEN RING)

Games like Perennial Order

The middle of these games

≈ 31k–12.3M copies

≈ $241k–$236.8M after Steam's cut

from ~68k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ELDEN RING at ≈ 28.6M–46.4M copies, ≈ $471.3M–$1267.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 429 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 347k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Souls-like (8 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Open World, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, 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 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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