How much revenue did Alder Forge make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alder Forge sell?

Q: How many copies did Alder Forge sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 21 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Alder Forge out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alder Forge's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 747k–1.8M

best case 4.5M (Persona 5 Royal)

Games like Alder Forge

The middle of these games

≈ 747k–1.8M copies

≈ $8.8M–$26.0M after Steam's cut

from ~20k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Persona 5 Royal at ≈ 3.5M–5.6M copies, ≈ $57.1M–$153.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 15k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on JRPG (8 of 8) and Turn-Based Combat (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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