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How many copies did ThroneForge - The Fortress War sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 248–403
$136–$365 after Steam's cut $247–$561 before the cut
from 10 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left ThroneForge - The Fortress War out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ThroneForge - The Fortress War's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 658k–1.6M
best case 3.0M (Manor Lords)
Games like ThroneForge - The Fortress War

The middle of these games

≈ 658k–1.6M copies

≈ $2.0M–$11.2M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: Manor Lords at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $24.8M–$66.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 877 to 44k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on City Builder (8 of 8) and Medieval (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 3 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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