How much revenue did Paper Kingdom make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paper Kingdom sell?

Q: How many copies did Paper Kingdom sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 66 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$24k before Steam's cut; from 66 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 Paper Kingdom and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paper Kingdom's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–59k

best case 317k (Kingdoms Reborn)

Games like Paper Kingdom

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–59k copies

≈ $43k–$732k after Steam's cut

from ~590 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Kingdoms Reborn at ≈ 242k–393k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 267 reviews in their first month; the range was 28 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Base-Building, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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