How much revenue did Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition make?

$753k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition sell?

137k to 223k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 137k–223k; $753k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 28.7M–67.6M

best case 128.9M (Terraria)

Games like Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 28.7M–67.6M copies

≈ $82.5M–$234.3M after Steam's cut

from ~694k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Survival (2 of 4), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Terraria at ≈ 98.2M–159.6M copies, ≈ $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (2 of 4) and Crafting (1 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2018, 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 38 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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Among Us 2018	Est. copies ≈ 22.7M–36.9M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $31.2M–$83.8M after Steam's cut $56.7M–$129.0M before the cut	$4.99	747k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerSocial Deduction
Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 35.9M–58.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.3M–$132.5M after Steam's cut $89.6M–$203.8M before the cut	$4.99	641k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
Terraria 2011	Est. copies ≈ 98.2M–159.6M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut $490.5M–$1115.8M before the cut	$9.99	1.6M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
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