How much revenue did Age of Wonders 4 make?

$7.9M–$21.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Age of Wonders 4 sell?

Q: How many copies did Age of Wonders 4 sell?

571k to 929k copies, based on its 23k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 571k–929k; $7.9M–$21.1M after Steam's cut $14.3M–$32.5M before Steam's cut; from 23k 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 Age of Wonders 4 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Age of Wonders 4's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 306k–1.7M

best case 4.6M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Age of Wonders 4

A typical game among these

≈ 306k–1.7M copies

≈ $4.6M–$25.3M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 779 to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Grand Strategy (6 of 8) and Management (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, 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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