How much revenue did Stronghold Crusader 2 make?

$11.1M–$29.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stronghold Crusader 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Stronghold Crusader 2 sell?

1.0M to 1.6M copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.0M–1.6M; $11.1M–$29.9M after Steam's cut $20.2M–$46.0M before the cut; from 18k 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 Stronghold Crusader 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stronghold Crusader 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–4.1M

best case 6.9M (Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition)

Games like Stronghold Crusader 2

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–4.1M copies

≈ $10.9M–$52.4M after Steam's cut

from ~67k 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: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition at ≈ 5.2M–8.5M copies, ≈ $50.4M–$135.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 18k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (7 of 8) and Medieval (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + City Builder, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, 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 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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