How much revenue did Ancestors Legacy make?

$2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ancestors Legacy sell?

Q: How many copies did Ancestors Legacy sell?

263k to 427k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 263k–427k; $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut $4.6M–$10.5M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Mostly 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 Ancestors Legacy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ancestors Legacy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.1M–6.1M

best case 6.9M (Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition)

Games like Ancestors Legacy

The middle of these games

≈ 3.1M–6.1M copies

≈ $56.5M–$65.4M after Steam's cut

from ~74k 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: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition at ≈ 5.2M–8.5M copies, ≈ $50.4M–$135.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Historical (7 of 8) and RTS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + City Builder, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry City Builder + Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2021, and none of them 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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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5.2M–8.5M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $50.4M–$135.5M after Steam's cut $91.6M–$208.4M before the cut	$34.99	182k reviews Very Positive	StrategyRTS
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