How much revenue did Army of Ruin make?

$154k–$413k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Army of Ruin sell?

Q: How many copies did Army of Ruin sell?

70k to 114k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 70k–114k; $154k–$413k after Steam's cut $279k–$635k before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Army of Ruin and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Army of Ruin's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 162k–199k

best case 206k (Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok)

Games like Army of Ruin

A typical game among these

≈ 162k–199k copies

≈ $270k–$431k after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok at ≈ 157k–256k copies, ≈ $432k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 591 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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