How many copies did El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 236 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue make?

El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue?

Estimated owners: ≈ 6k–10k; from 236 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 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–3.3M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue

The middle of these games

≈ 2.4M–3.3M copies

≈ $32.7M–$59.3M after Steam's cut

from ~80k 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: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.4M–$315.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 34k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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