How much revenue did Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 make?

$253k–$682k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 sell?

Q: How many copies did Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 sell?

103k to 167k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 103k–167k; $253k–$682k after Steam's cut $461k–$1.0M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mixed)

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 Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Battle of Empires : 1914-1918's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 396k–2.0M

best case 7.4M (Battlefield™ 1)

Games like Battle of Empires : 1914-1918

The middle of these games

≈ 396k–2.0M copies

≈ $3.5M–$12.0M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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: Battlefield™ 1 at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $61.8M–$166.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on War (5 of 8) and World War I (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + World War I, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2023, 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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