How much revenue did Legacy of Sin: Ill-Boding make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Legacy of Sin: Ill-Boding sell?

Q: How many copies did Legacy of Sin: Ill-Boding sell?

620 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 25 reviews (Mixed)

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 Legacy of Sin: Ill-Boding out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Legacy of Sin: Ill-Boding's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 176k–1.0M

best case 1.9M (They Are Billions)

Games like Legacy of Sin: Ill-Boding

The middle of these games

≈ 176k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: They Are Billions at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.2M–$32.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (5 of 8) and Colony Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Colony Sim, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, 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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