How much revenue did The Guild II Renaissance make?

$729k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Guild II Renaissance sell?

Q: How many copies did The Guild II Renaissance sell?

265k to 431k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 265k–431k; $729k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut; from 4k 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 The Guild II Renaissance out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Guild II Renaissance's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 859k–2.9M

best case 4.7M (Prison Architect)

Games like The Guild II Renaissance

The middle of these games

≈ 859k–2.9M copies

≈ $10.9M–$27.7M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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: Prison Architect at ≈ 3.6M–5.8M copies, ≈ $29.7M–$79.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Building, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, 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 70 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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