How much revenue did Guardians of Holme make?

$15k–$39k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Guardians of Holme sell?

Q: How many copies did Guardians of Holme sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 165 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $15k–$39k after Steam's cut $27k–$60k before Steam's cut; from 165 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 Guardians of Holme and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Guardians of Holme's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 292k–437k

best case 1.9M (They Are Billions)

Games like Guardians of Holme

A typical game among these

≈ 292k–437k copies

≈ $973k–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 852 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (8 of 8) and Base-Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Colony Sim, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, and 3 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 70 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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