How much revenue did The Conquest of Go make?

$60k–$162k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Conquest of Go sell?

Q: How many copies did The Conquest of Go sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 591 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $60k–$162k after Steam's cut $110k–$250k before Steam's cut; from 591 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 The Conquest of Go and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including The Conquest of Go's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 398k–647k

best case 1.0M (Armello)

Games like The Conquest of Go

A typical game among these

≈ 398k–647k copies

≈ $2.2M–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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 7 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Armello at ≈ 784k–1.3M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (7 of 7) and Tabletop (6 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2019, 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 36 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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Armello 2015	Est. copies ≈ 784k–1.3M 1.9x vs typical 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
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