How much revenue did Ancient Kingdoms make?

$53k–$143k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ancient Kingdoms sell?

Q: How many copies did Ancient Kingdoms sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 488 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $53k–$143k after Steam's cut $97k–$220k before the cut; from 488 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 Ancient Kingdoms out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ancient Kingdoms's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–687k

best case 9.3M (Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition)

Games like Ancient Kingdoms

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–687k copies

≈ $10k–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition at ≈ 7.1M–11.5M copies, ≈ $87.4M–$235.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 573 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and CRPG (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $45.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, 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 43 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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