How much revenue did Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth make?

$1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth sell?

Q: How many copies did Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth sell?

261k to 424k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 261k–424k; $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before the cut; from 8k 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 Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.6M

best case 4.9M (Disco Elysium - The Final Cut)

Games like Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–1.6M copies

≈ $4.7M–$13.1M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut at ≈ 3.8M–6.1M copies, ≈ $41.3M–$111.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 332 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choices Matter (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Anime + Mature + RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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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