How much revenue did Gothic 1 make?

$6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gothic 1 sell?

Q: How many copies did Gothic 1 sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut $11.6M–$26.3M before the cut; from 18k 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 Gothic 1 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gothic 1's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–5.9M

best case 20.5M (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition)

Games like Gothic 1

The middle of these games

≈ 4.4M–5.9M copies

≈ $27.5M–$50.8M after Steam's cut

from ~65k 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: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition at ≈ 15.6M–25.4M copies, ≈ $172.0M–$462.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Fantasy, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Character Customization + Dragons + Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2019, 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 36 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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