How many copies did El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 236 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue make?

El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 6k–10k; from 236 reviews (Mostly 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 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–3.3M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue

A typical game among these

≈ 2.4M–3.3M copies

≈ $32.9M–$59.7M after Steam's cut

from ~81k 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: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 34k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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