How much revenue did ♞ The Tactics of War ♞ make?

$35k–$94k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ♞ The Tactics of War ♞ sell?

Q: How many copies did ♞ The Tactics of War ♞ sell?

638 to 1k copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 638–1k; $35k–$94k after Steam's cut $64k–$145k before the cut; from 21 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–4.7M

best case 10.8M (Stellaris)

Games like ♞ The Tactics of War ♞

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies

≈ $29.3M–$63.5M 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: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.8M 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 19k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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