How much revenue did Parkan: Iron Strategy make?

$850–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Parkan: Iron Strategy sell?

Q: How many copies did Parkan: Iron Strategy sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $850–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 34 reviews (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 Parkan: Iron Strategy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Parkan: Iron Strategy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–708k

best case 4.7M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Parkan: Iron Strategy

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–708k copies

≈ $110k–$7.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

4 of your 8 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 497 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (5 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 61 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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