How much revenue did Citadels make?

$128k–$345k 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 492 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–51k; $128k–$345k after Steam's cut $233k–$530k before the cut; from 492 reviews (Very Negative)

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 Citadels out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Citadels's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–3.6M

best case 4.7M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Citadels

The middle of these games

≈ 2.4M–3.6M copies

≈ $17.8M–$41.5M after Steam's cut

from ~56k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.6M–5.8M copies, ≈ $48.9M–$131.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Medieval (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2025, and 2 of your 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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