How much revenue did EarthRoyale make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did EarthRoyale sell?

Q: How many copies did EarthRoyale sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 179 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$40k before the cut; from 179 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 EarthRoyale out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including EarthRoyale's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 159k–1.7M

best case 2.0M (Victoria 3)

Games like EarthRoyale

The middle of these games

≈ 159k–1.7M copies

≈ $700k–$21.4M 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: Victoria 3 at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $20.8M–$55.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 333 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Political Sim (7 of 8) and Grand Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Economy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, and 2 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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