How much revenue did Oriental Dynasty - Silk Road defense war make?

$26k–$69k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Oriental Dynasty - Silk Road defense war sell?

Q: How many copies did Oriental Dynasty - Silk Road defense war sell?

16k to 25k copies, based on its 631 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–25k; $26k–$69k after Steam's cut $47k–$107k before Steam's cut; from 631 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 Oriental Dynasty - Silk Road defense war and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Oriental Dynasty - Silk Road defense war's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 544k–1.5M

best case 1.9M (They Are Billions)

Games like Oriental Dynasty - Silk Road defense war

A typical game among these

≈ 544k–1.5M copies

≈ $2.2M–$7.8M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: They Are Billions at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.2M–$32.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (5 of 8) and City Builder (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Colony Sim, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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