How much revenue did Ruler of the Waves 1916 make?

$103–$273 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ruler of the Waves 1916 sell?

Q: How many copies did Ruler of the Waves 1916 sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $103–$273 after Steam's cut $187–$420 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Ruler of the Waves 1916 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ruler of the Waves 1916's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 425k–698k

best case 826k (Farthest Frontier)

Games like Ruler of the Waves 1916

The middle of these games

≈ 425k–698k copies

≈ $3.7M–$5.9M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is City Builder (3 of 8), 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: Farthest Frontier at ≈ 630k–1.0M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 258 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Historical + Agriculture, priced around $35.
The era: 6 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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