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How many copies did Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 137k–223k
$753k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M 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 Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 28.6M–67.3M
best case 128.5M (Terraria)
Games like Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 28.6M–67.3M copies

≈ $82.1M–$233.7M after Steam's cut

from ~691k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Survival (2 of 4), 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: Terraria at ≈ 97.9M–159.1M copies, ≈ $269.0M–$723.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Survival (2 of 4) and Crafting (1 of 4).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $10.
The era
The games you compared span 2011 to 2018, 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 38 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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DifficultMusic
Terraria
2011
Est. copies
≈ 97.9M–159.1M
2.2x vs typical
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Overwhelmingly Positive
Open World Survival CraftSandbox
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