How much revenue did YAR: Forgotten Throne make?

$185k–$497k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did YAR: Forgotten Throne sell?

Q: How many copies did YAR: Forgotten Throne sell?

34k to 55k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–55k; $185k–$497k after Steam's cut $336k–$765k before the cut; from 1k 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 YAR: Forgotten Throne out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including YAR: Forgotten Throne's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20k–351k

best case 1.4M (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition)

Games like YAR: Forgotten Throne

The middle of these games

≈ 20k–351k copies

≈ $86k–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action RPG (3 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: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.0M–$16.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 405 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 60 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (3 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Third Person, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 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 38 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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