How much revenue did Sultan's Game make?

$6.0M–$16.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sultan's Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Sultan's Game sell?

868k to 1.4M copies, based on its 35k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 868k–1.4M; $6.0M–$16.0M after Steam's cut $10.8M–$24.7M before the cut; from 35k 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 Sultan's Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sultan's Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.3M–30.3M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Sultan's Game

The middle of these games

≈ 10.3M–30.3M copies

≈ $154.2M–$304.3M after Steam's cut

from ~348k 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 200k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 57k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Open World Survival Craft (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, 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 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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