How much revenue did Volgarr the Viking II make?

$13k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Volgarr the Viking II sell?

Q: How many copies did Volgarr the Viking II sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 99 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $25k–$56k before Steam's cut; from 99 reviews (Very 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 Volgarr the Viking II and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Volgarr the Viking II's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 141k–403k

best case 493k (Rogue Legacy 2)

Games like Volgarr the Viking II

A typical game among these

≈ 141k–403k copies

≈ $483k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rogue Legacy 2 at ≈ 376k–611k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (7 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Arcade + Metroidvania, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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