How much revenue did New World: Aeternum make?

New World: Aeternum is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did New World: Aeternum sell?

Q: How many copies did New World: Aeternum sell?

7.4M to 12.0M copies, based on its 297k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7.4M–12.0M; from 297k reviews (Mixed)

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 New World: Aeternum and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including New World: Aeternum's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.8M–11.0M

best case 35.2M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like New World: Aeternum

A typical game among these

≈ 6.8M–11.0M copies

≈ $56.4M after Steam's cut

from ~182k 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: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.8M–43.5M copies, ≈ $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share MMORPG (6 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Open World + Open World Survival Craft + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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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