How much revenue did EMPYRE: Dukes of the Far Frontier make?

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

How many copies did EMPYRE: Dukes of the Far Frontier sell?

Q: How many copies did EMPYRE: Dukes of the Far Frontier sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 12 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 EMPYRE: Dukes of the Far Frontier and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including EMPYRE: Dukes of the Far Frontier's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–7.5M

best case 12.1M (BioShock Infinite)

Games like EMPYRE: Dukes of the Far Frontier

A typical game among these

≈ 2.1M–7.5M copies

≈ $17.0M–$69.8M after Steam's cut

from ~71k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Alternate History (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: BioShock Infinite at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $76.0M–$204.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 133 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Alternate History (3 of 8) and Isometric (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Story Rich, priced around $30.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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