How much revenue did TFC: The Fertile Crescent make?

$29k–$79k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TFC: The Fertile Crescent sell?

Q: How many copies did TFC: The Fertile Crescent sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 392 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $29k–$79k after Steam's cut $53k–$122k before the cut; from 392 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 TFC: The Fertile Crescent out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TFC: The Fertile Crescent's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 89k–767k

best case 3.1M (Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition)

Games like TFC: The Fertile Crescent

The middle of these games

≈ 89k–767k copies

≈ $370k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition at ≈ 2.4M–3.8M copies, ≈ $26.0M–$69.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 181 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RTS (5 of 8) and City Builder (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + Base-Building, priced around $40.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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