How much revenue did Sands of Salzaar make?

$2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sands of Salzaar sell?

Q: How many copies did Sands of Salzaar sell?

571k to 928k copies, based on its 23k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 571k–928k; $2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.7M before the cut; from 23k 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 Sands of Salzaar out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sands of Salzaar's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 456k–1.5M

best case 9.7M (Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord)

Games like Sands of Salzaar

The middle of these games

≈ 456k–1.5M copies

≈ $4.2M–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at ≈ 7.4M–12.0M copies, ≈ $101.3M–$272.4M 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 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 200k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on War (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Open World, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Singleplayer + Medieval; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 3 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 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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