How much revenue did Medieval Arms make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Medieval Arms sell?

Q: How many copies did Medieval Arms sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 16 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 Medieval Arms and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Medieval Arms's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–1.7M

best case 4.3M (MORDHAU)

Games like Medieval Arms

A typical game among these

≈ 64k–1.7M copies

≈ $923k–$49.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Hack and Slash (3 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: MORDHAU at ≈ 3.3M–5.3M copies, ≈ $26.9M–$72.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 658 reviews in their first month; the range was 142 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (3 of 8) and Medieval (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + First-Person, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 79 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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Lord of the Rings: War in the North 2011	Est. copies ≈ 605k–984k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	10k reviews Very Positive	RPGAction
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare 2012	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 9.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $28.2M–$75.9M after Steam's cut $51.3M–$116.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	65k reviews Very Positive	MedievalMultiplayer
Darksburg 2020	Est. copies ≈ 63k–102k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $258k–$693k after Steam's cut $469k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	3k reviews Mixed	Rogue-like Co-op
Low Magic Age 2017	Est. copies ≈ 121k–197k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $500k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $910k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessDungeons & Dragons
Kingshunt 2022	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	266 reviews Mixed	Early AccessMOBA
Myth of Empires 2024	Est. copies ≈ 437k–710k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$14.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	18k reviews Mixed	BuildingOpen World Survival Craft
MORDHAU 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.3M–5.3M 17x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $26.9M–$72.3M after Steam's cut $48.9M–$111.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	113k reviews Mostly Positive	MedievalMultiplayer
Hanako: Honor & Blade 2021	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	238 reviews Mostly Positive	Hack and SlashThird-Person Shooter