How much revenue did The Viking Way make?

$39k–$104k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Viking Way sell?

Q: How many copies did The Viking Way sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 377 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $39k–$104k after Steam's cut $70k–$159k before Steam's cut; from 377 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 Viking Way and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Viking Way's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 391–1k

best case 7.4M (Kingdom Come: Deliverance)

Games like The Viking Way

A typical game among these

≈ 391–1k copies

≈ $898–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~30 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Medieval (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: Kingdom Come: Deliverance at ≈ 5.7M–9.2M copies, ≈ $46.7M–$125.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 110 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Medieval (4 of 8) and Action RPG (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Open World, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Open World + Singleplayer + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, 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 38 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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