How much revenue did The Yellow King make?

$13k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Yellow King sell?

Q: How many copies did The Yellow King sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 218 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before Steam's cut; from 218 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 The Yellow King and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Yellow King's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11.7M–12.8M

best case 37.9M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like The Yellow King

A typical game among these

≈ 11.7M–12.8M copies

≈ $132.6M–$265.4M after Steam's cut

from ~347k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (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: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.9M–46.9M copies, ≈ $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 251k reviews in their first month; the range was 143k to 347k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Open World, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, 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 52 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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Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition 2019	Est. copies ≈ 10.3M–16.7M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $169.4M–$455.5M after Steam's cut $308.0M–$700.8M before Steam's cut	$59.99	357k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Souls-likeDifficult
Ready or Not 2023	Est. copies ≈ 8.6M–14.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $118.4M–$318.4M after Steam's cut $215.3M–$489.8M before Steam's cut	$49.99	347k reviews Mostly Positive	TacticalRealistic
Cyberpunk 2077 2020	Est. copies ≈ 24.4M–39.6M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $402.0M–$1080.8M after Steam's cut $730.9M–$1662.7M before Steam's cut	$59.99	983k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkOpen World
People Playground 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut $46.1M–$104.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	321k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxGore
HELLDIVERS™ 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 28.9M–46.9M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut $577.5M–$1313.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	1.2M reviews Mostly Positive	Online Co-OpPvE
ELDEN RING 2022	Est. copies ≈ 28.7M–46.6M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $473.6M–$1273.3M after Steam's cut $861.1M–$1959.0M before Steam's cut	$59.99	1.2M reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeOpen World
Dead by Daylight 2016	Est. copies ≈ 39.0M–63.3M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $214.2M–$575.9M after Steam's cut $389.4M–$886.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	937k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Call of Duty® 2022	Est. copies ≈ 19.4M–31.5M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	782k reviews Mixed	FPSMultiplayer