How much revenue did Citadels make?

$129k–$346k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Citadels sell?

Q: How many copies did Citadels sell?

31k to 51k copies, based on its 494 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–51k; $129k–$346k after Steam's cut $234k–$532k before Steam's cut; from 494 reviews (Very Negative)

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 Citadels and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Citadels's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–3.6M

best case 4.6M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Citadels

A typical game among these

≈ 2.4M–3.6M copies

≈ $17.2M–$41.9M after Steam's cut

from ~56k 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: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 18k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Medieval (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2025, and 2 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 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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