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How many copies did Tyranny sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 554k–900k
$4.6M–$12.3M after Steam's cut $8.3M–$18.9M before the cut
from 13k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Tyranny out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tyranny's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.3M–7.9M
best case 56.7M (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition)
Games like Tyranny

The middle of these games

≈ 7.3M–7.9M copies

≈ $142.3M–$167.3M after Steam's cut

from ~197k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition at ≈ 43.2M–70.2M copies, ≈ $593.9M–$1596.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 171k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 72k to 268k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $55. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Fantasy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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