How much revenue did Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition make?

$6.3M–$16.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition sell?

1.1M to 1.9M copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.9M; $6.3M–$16.9M after Steam's cut $11.4M–$26.0M before Steam's cut; from 18k 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 Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 953k–1.6M

best case 28.0M (Baldur's Gate 3)

Games like Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 953k–1.6M copies

≈ $9.1M–$29.5M after Steam's cut

from ~30k 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: Baldur's Gate 3 at ≈ 21.3M–34.6M copies, ≈ $351.5M–$945.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 27k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 268k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share CRPG (7 of 8) and Fantasy (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Fantasy, priced around $52. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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