How much revenue did Overlord™ make?

$585k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Overlord™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Overlord™ sell?

427k to 693k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 427k–693k; $585k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 Overlord™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Overlord™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–145k

best case 734k (Tyranny)

Games like Overlord™

A typical game among these

≈ 18k–145k copies

≈ $155k–$556k after Steam's cut

from ~897 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Dark Fantasy (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Tyranny at ≈ 560k–909k copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 307 reviews in their first month; the range was 227 to 471.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dark Fantasy (3 of 8) and Fantasy (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2025, and 1 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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