How much revenue did Escape The Mad Empire make?

$52k–$140k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape The Mad Empire sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape The Mad Empire sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 425 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $95k–$216k before the cut; from 425 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 Escape The Mad Empire out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape The Mad Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–13k

best case 83k (Siralim Ultimate)

Games like Escape The Mad Empire

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–13k copies

≈ $35k–$113k after Steam's cut

from ~194 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Siralim Ultimate at ≈ 63k–102k copies, ≈ $346k–$930k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 45 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 934.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Combat (5 of 8) and Party-Based RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Collectathon + Creature Collector, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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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