How much revenue did I, the Forgotten One make?

$11k–$29k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I, the Forgotten One sell?

Q: How many copies did I, the Forgotten One sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 200 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $20k–$45k before the cut; from 200 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 I, the Forgotten One out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I, the Forgotten One's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–7.3M

best case 9.6M (Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord)

Games like I, the Forgotten One

The middle of these games

≈ 3.9M–7.3M copies

≈ $49.8M–$88.9M after Steam's cut

from ~98k 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.

Best case: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at ≈ 7.3M–11.9M copies, ≈ $101.0M–$271.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 200k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Medieval (6 of 8) and War (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Open World, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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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