How much revenue did Ark of Charon make?

$70k–$189k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ark of Charon sell?

Q: How many copies did Ark of Charon sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 413 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $70k–$189k after Steam's cut $128k–$291k before the cut; from 413 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 Ark of Charon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ark of Charon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 770k–1.4M

best case 1.4M (Kingdoms and Castles)

Games like Ark of Charon

The middle of these games

≈ 770k–1.4M copies

≈ $3.6M–$9.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Kingdoms and Castles at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$16.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (5 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Colony Sim, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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Kingdoms and Castles 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$16.0M after Steam's cut $10.8M–$24.6M before the cut	$19.99	31k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Colony Sim
Bad North: Jotunn Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 431k–700k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before the cut	$14.99	14k reviews Very Positive	WargameVikings
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