How much revenue did Supreme Ruler Ultimate make?

$386k–$1.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Supreme Ruler Ultimate sell?

Q: How many copies did Supreme Ruler Ultimate sell?

70k to 114k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 70k–114k; $386k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $701k–$1.6M before the cut; from 1k 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 Supreme Ruler Ultimate out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Supreme Ruler Ultimate's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–3.3M

best case 20.5M (Hearts of Iron IV)

Games like Supreme Ruler Ultimate

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–3.3M copies

≈ $29.5M–$53.9M after Steam's cut

from ~58k 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: Hearts of Iron IV at ≈ 15.6M–25.4M copies, ≈ $214.5M–$576.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Grand Strategy (8 of 8) and Historical (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with World War II + Grand Strategy, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry World War II + Alternate History + Military; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2025, and 1 of your 7 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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