How much revenue did Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition make?

$65k–$176k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition sell?

30k to 48k copies, based on its 471 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–48k; $65k–$176k after Steam's cut $119k–$271k before the cut; from 471 reviews (Very 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 Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 977k–2.0M

best case 3.0M (Manor Lords)

Games like Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 977k–2.0M copies

≈ $16.3M–$23.2M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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: Manor Lords at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 18k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (7 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Base-Building + Medieval + Grand Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 2 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 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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