How much revenue did Medieval Arms make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Medieval Arms sell?

Q: How many copies did Medieval Arms sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 16 reviews (Mixed)

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 Medieval Arms out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Medieval Arms's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–1.7M

best case 4.3M (MORDHAU)

Games like Medieval Arms

The middle of these games

≈ 64k–1.7M copies

≈ $919k–$49.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Hack and Slash (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: MORDHAU at ≈ 3.3M–5.3M copies, ≈ $26.9M–$72.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 660 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 141 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (3 of 8) and Medieval (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + First-Person, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, 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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