How much revenue did Reiner Knizia Yellow & Yangtze make?

$14k–$38k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Reiner Knizia Yellow & Yangtze sell?

Q: How many copies did Reiner Knizia Yellow & Yangtze sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 120 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$59k before the cut; from 120 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 Reiner Knizia Yellow & Yangtze out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Reiner Knizia Yellow & Yangtze's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 162k–232k

best case 2.4M (UNO)

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The middle of these games

≈ 162k–232k copies

≈ $1.1M–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 757 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 106 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Board Game (7 of 8) and Tabletop (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Free to Play + Tactical; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 43 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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