How much revenue did Burden of Command™ make?

$111k–$298k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Burden of Command™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Burden of Command™ sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 650 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $111k–$298k after Steam's cut $201k–$458k before the cut; from 650 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 Burden of Command™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Burden of Command™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–71k

best case 285k (Partisans 1941)

Games like Burden of Command™

The middle of these games

≈ 19k–71k copies

≈ $261k–$344k after Steam's cut

from ~684 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Partisans 1941 at ≈ 217k–352k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 133 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tactical RPG (7 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Real Time Tactics + World War II, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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