How much revenue did Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® make?

$142k–$382k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® sell?

Q: How many copies did Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® sell?

52k to 84k copies, based on its 818 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 52k–84k; $142k–$382k after Steam's cut $258k–$587k before Steam's cut; from 818 reviews (Mostly 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 Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 111k–884k

best case 2.7M (Northgard: Definitive Edition)

Games like Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®

A typical game among these

≈ 111k–884k copies

≈ $1.0M–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Northgard: Definitive Edition at ≈ 2.1M–3.4M copies, ≈ $20.1M–$54.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 4X (6 of 8) and RTS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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