How much revenue did Doodle Empires make?

$60k–$161k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Doodle Empires sell?

Q: How many copies did Doodle Empires sell?

31k to 51k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–51k; $60k–$161k after Steam's cut $109k–$248k before the cut; from 1k 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 Doodle Empires out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Doodle Empires's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 458k–1.9M

best case 11.4M (Europa Universalis IV)

Games like Doodle Empires

The middle of these games

≈ 458k–1.9M copies

≈ $3.9M–$24.6M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Europa Universalis IV at ≈ 8.7M–14.1M copies, ≈ $119.2M–$320.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 333 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Grand Strategy (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Historical, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2026, and 2 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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