How much revenue did Victoria II make?

$6.9M–$18.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Victoria II sell?

Q: How many copies did Victoria II sell?

1.3M to 2.1M copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.3M–2.1M; $6.9M–$18.7M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.7M before the cut; from 20k 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 Victoria II out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Victoria II's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 67k–117k

best case 6.1M (Crusader Kings II)

Games like Victoria II

The middle of these games

≈ 67k–117k copies

≈ $288k–$705k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Crusader Kings II at ≈ 4.7M–7.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 816 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Historical (8 of 8) and Grand Strategy (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Historical + Grand Strategy, priced around $45.
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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