How much revenue did Knights of Honor II: Sovereign make?

$2.1M–$5.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Knights of Honor II: Sovereign sell?

Q: How many copies did Knights of Honor II: Sovereign sell?

166k to 270k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 166k–270k; $2.1M–$5.5M after Steam's cut $3.7M–$8.5M before the cut; from 7k 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 Knights of Honor II: Sovereign out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Knights of Honor II: Sovereign's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–5.8M

best case 4.7M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Knights of Honor II: Sovereign

The middle of these games

≈ 3.0M–5.8M copies

≈ $41.9M–$90.0M after Steam's cut

from ~82k 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: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.8M copies, ≈ $48.8M–$131.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 192 to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Grand Strategy (7 of 8) and Historical (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2024, 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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