How much revenue did Ancient Enemy make?

$60k–$160k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ancient Enemy sell?

Q: How many copies did Ancient Enemy sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 514 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $60k–$160k after Steam's cut $108k–$246k before the cut; from 514 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 Ancient Enemy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ancient Enemy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 167k–289k

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Ancient Enemy

The middle of these games

≈ 167k–289k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Card Battler (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.3M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Battler (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Horror + Dark + Rogue-lite; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 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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