How much revenue did Ash of Gods: The Way make?

$86k–$232k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ash of Gods: The Way sell?

Q: How many copies did Ash of Gods: The Way sell?

13k to 20k copies, based on its 506 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–20k; $86k–$232k after Steam's cut $157k–$357k before Steam's cut; from 506 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 Ash of Gods: The Way and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ash of Gods: The Way's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 90k–147k

best case 1.6M (Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader)

Games like Ash of Gods: The Way

A typical game among these

≈ 90k–147k copies

≈ $694k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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 Turn-Based Strategy (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: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $16.5M–$44.4M 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 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 546 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Strategy (4 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Cinematic, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Dark Fantasy + Strategy + Card Game; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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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Cultist Simulator 2018	Est. copies ≈ 433k–704k 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	14k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationChoices Matter
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