How much revenue did Age of Empires® III (2007) make?

Age of Empires® III (2007) is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Age of Empires® III (2007) sell?

Q: How many copies did Age of Empires® III (2007) sell?

2.0M to 3.3M copies, based on its 32k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.0M–3.3M; from 32k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Age of Empires® III (2007) and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Age of Empires® III (2007)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.3M–7.3M

best case 6.9M (Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition)

Games like Age of Empires® III (2007)

A typical game among these

≈ 4.3M–7.3M copies

≈ $52.6M–$67.6M after Steam's cut

from ~108k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition at ≈ 5.3M–8.6M copies, ≈ $50.7M–$136.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (6 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + City Builder, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2021, and none of them 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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