How much revenue did Gary Grigsby's War in the East make?

$627k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gary Grigsby's War in the East sell?

Q: How many copies did Gary Grigsby's War in the East sell?

28k to 46k copies, based on its 584 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–46k; $627k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before the cut; from 584 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 Gary Grigsby's War in the East out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gary Grigsby's War in the East's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 260k–408k

best case 11.4M (Europa Universalis IV)

Games like Gary Grigsby's War in the East

The middle of these games

≈ 260k–408k copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Grand Strategy (8 of 8) and Wargame (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Military, priced around $55. The breakout hits carry 4X + Alternate History + Military; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, 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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