How much revenue did Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun make?

$589k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun sell?

Q: How many copies did Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun sell?

107k to 174k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 107k–174k; $589k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut; from 4k 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 Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.4M–6.8M

best case 39.3M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun

The middle of these games

≈ 3.4M–6.8M copies

≈ $42.3M–$71.1M after Steam's cut

from ~114k 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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.7M copies, ≈ $494.5M–$1329.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 94k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (8 of 8) and Hack and Slash (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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