How much revenue did The Elder Scrolls® Online make?

An estimated 30.4M to 81.7M net after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Elder Scrolls® Online sell?

Q: How many copies did The Elder Scrolls® Online sell?

An estimated 5.5M to 9.0M copies, based on its 161k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.5M–9.0M; $30.4M–$81.7M net $55.3M–$125.7M gross; from 161k 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 The Elder Scrolls® Online out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Elder Scrolls® Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.5M–12.4M

best case 34.8M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

The Open World lane

A big, proven genre: most sell around 6.6M copies.

A typical game

≈ 6.6M copies

≈ $74.6M after Steam's cut

from ~130k reviews

Best case

≈ 34.8M copies

ARK: Survival Evolved · ≈ $201.8M after Steam's cut

from 772k reviews

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count; typical figures are medians per column, so they can come from different games.

The lane you'd be entering

Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
The games you compared span 2014 to 2021, a lane with a long track record.
A typical game here lands in Diamond ($1M+ before Steam's cut, est.). Tiers: Chris Zukowski's benchmark tiers.

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