How much revenue did Swords and Sandals Classic Collection make?

$240k–$645k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Swords and Sandals Classic Collection sell?

Q: How many copies did Swords and Sandals Classic Collection sell?

87k to 142k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 87k–142k; $240k–$645k after Steam's cut $436k–$992k before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Swords and Sandals Classic Collection and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Swords and Sandals Classic Collection's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 380k–1.2M

best case 1.2M (Stoneshard)

Games like Swords and Sandals Classic Collection

A typical game among these

≈ 380k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.3M–$7.0M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Stoneshard at ≈ 886k–1.4M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (5 of 8) and Turn-Based (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Survival, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, and 2 of the 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 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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