How much revenue did Land of the Vikings make?

$400k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Land of the Vikings sell?

Q: How many copies did Land of the Vikings sell?

56k to 91k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 56k–91k; $400k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $728k–$1.7M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Land of the Vikings out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Land of the Vikings's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–3.0M

best case 5.5M (Frostpunk)

Games like Land of the Vikings

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–3.0M copies

≈ $14.5M–$33.9M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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: Frostpunk at ≈ 4.2M–6.8M copies, ≈ $34.4M–$92.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (8 of 8) and Colony Sim (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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