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How many copies did Rumours of a Roman Empire sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 50–81
$83–$221 after Steam's cut $150–$340 before the cut
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 2 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Rumours of a Roman Empire out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rumours of a Roman Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–3.6M
best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)
Games like Rumours of a Roman Empire

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–3.6M copies

≈ $7.8M–$16.2M after Steam's cut

from ~50k 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: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Anime (6 of 8) and Dating Sim (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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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