How much revenue did Ruler of the Waves 1916 make?

$103–$273 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ruler of the Waves 1916 sell?

Q: How many copies did Ruler of the Waves 1916 sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $103–$273 after Steam's cut $187–$420 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Ruler of the Waves 1916 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ruler of the Waves 1916's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 429k–705k

best case 837k (Farthest Frontier)

Games like Ruler of the Waves 1916

A typical game among these

≈ 429k–705k copies

≈ $3.8M–$6.0M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is City Builder (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Farthest Frontier at ≈ 638k–1.0M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 258 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Historical + Agriculture, priced around $35.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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