How much revenue did A guard walks into a tavern make?

$24k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A guard walks into a tavern sell?

Q: How many copies did A guard walks into a tavern sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 432 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $24k–$63k after Steam's cut $43k–$97k before the cut; from 432 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 A guard walks into a tavern out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A guard walks into a tavern's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 429k–1.1M

best case 4.7M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like A guard walks into a tavern

The middle of these games

≈ 429k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.3M–$8.7M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.8M copies, ≈ $48.8M–$131.2M 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 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Medieval (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Grand Strategy, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Grand Strategy + Historical + Character Customization; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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