How much revenue did The Cold War Era make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Cold War Era sell?

Q: How many copies did The Cold War Era sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 26 reviews (Mixed)

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 Cold War Era out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Cold War Era's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–90k

best case 6.1M (Crusader Kings II)

Games like The Cold War Era

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–90k copies

≈ $32k–$117k after Steam's cut

from ~889 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crusader Kings II at ≈ 4.7M–7.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Cold War (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Medieval.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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