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How many copies did Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 5k–8k
$13k–$35k after Steam's cut $24k–$54k before the cut
from 191 reviews (Very Positive)

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 Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 556k–1.1M
best case 1.7M (Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™)
Games like Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced

The middle of these games

≈ 556k–1.1M copies

≈ $3.7M–$13.9M 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: Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $14.2M–$38.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 4X (7 of 8) and Sci-fi (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Sci-fi, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2021, and none of them 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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