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How many copies did Noble Fates sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 37k–60k
$253k–$681k after Steam's cut $460k–$1.0M before Steam's cut
from 1k 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 Noble Fates and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Noble Fates's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–6.2M
best case 9.9M (RimWorld)
Games like Noble Fates

A typical game among these

≈ 2.6M–6.2M copies

≈ $38.6M–$76.4M after Steam's cut

from ~85k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: RimWorld at ≈ 7.6M–12.3M copies, ≈ $72.7M–$195.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Base-Building (4 of 4) and Management (4 of 4).
The winners
Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $35.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 4 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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2.9x vs typical
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