How much revenue did Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky make?

$181k–$487k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky sell?

Q: How many copies did Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky sell?

66k to 107k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 66k–107k; $181k–$487k after Steam's cut $329k–$749k before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–6.7M

best case 6.4M (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II)

Games like Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky

A typical game among these

≈ 2.9M–6.7M copies

≈ $44.9M–$138.5M after Steam's cut

from ~111k 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.

Best case: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II at ≈ 4.9M–7.9M copies, ≈ $80.4M–$216.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 44k reviews in their first month; the range was 13k to 70k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Historical (6 of 8) and Open World (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Open World, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 3 of the 7 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 70 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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