How much revenue did Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms make?

$8k–$22k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms sell?

Q: How many copies did Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 120 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$34k before the cut; from 120 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 Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–8.5M

best case 11.4M (Europa Universalis IV)

Games like Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–8.5M copies

≈ $38.2M–$142.9M after Steam's cut

from ~51k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Wargame (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Europa Universalis IV at ≈ 8.7M–14.1M copies, ≈ $119.2M–$320.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Wargame (4 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Historical, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 1 of your 7 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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