How much revenue did Rise Of The Overlords make?

Rise Of The Overlords is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Rise Of The Overlords sell?

Q: How many copies did Rise Of The Overlords sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; from 19 reviews (Mostly 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 Rise Of The Overlords and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rise Of The Overlords's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–2.2M

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like Rise Of The Overlords

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–2.2M copies

≈ $5.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut

from ~48k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Board Game (4 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: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (4 of 8) and Card Game (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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Dota Underlords 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	91k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStrategy
For The King 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $7.3M–$19.7M after Steam's cut $13.3M–$30.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	44k reviews Very Positive	RPGOnline Co-Op
Liar's Bar 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.1M before Steam's cut	$6.99	56k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerCasual
Dorfromantik 2022	Est. copies ≈ 735k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.7M before Steam's cut	$13.99	30k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleRelaxing
KARDS - The WW2 Card Game 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	52k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayCard Game
Armello 2015	Est. copies ≈ 784k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's cut $9.8M–$22.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	16k reviews Very Positive	Board GamePvP
Gloomhaven 2021	Est. copies ≈ 400k–650k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	16k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpDark Fantasy
Tabletop Simulator 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $20.0M–$53.8M after Steam's cut $36.4M–$82.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	75k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	TabletopBoard Game