How much revenue did Explorer：Golden Empire make?

Explorer：Golden Empire is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Explorer：Golden Empire sell?

Q: How many copies did Explorer：Golden Empire sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Only 8 reviews 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 Explorer：Golden Empire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Explorer：Golden Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 244–200k

best case 561k (Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin)

Games like Explorer：Golden Empire

A typical game among these

≈ 244–200k copies

≈ $1k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~304 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin at ≈ 427k–694k copies, ≈ $4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 198 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (7 of 8) and Creature Collector (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Exploration, priced around $40.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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