How much revenue did Paladin's Oath make?

$6k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paladin's Oath sell?

Q: How many copies did Paladin's Oath sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 137 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before Steam's cut; from 137 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 Paladin's Oath and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paladin's Oath's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 716–22k

best case 568k (Cultist Simulator)

Games like Paladin's Oath

A typical game among these

≈ 716–22k copies

≈ $2k–$241k after Steam's cut

from ~42 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cultist Simulator at ≈ 433k–704k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 17.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (7 of 8) and Strategy RPG (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Choices Matter, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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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