How much revenue did The Three Kingdoms Era in China 2000 years ago make?

$571–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Three Kingdoms Era in China 2000 years ago sell?

Q: How many copies did The Three Kingdoms Era in China 2000 years ago sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $571–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 21 reviews (Mixed)

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 The Three Kingdoms Era in China 2000 years ago and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Three Kingdoms Era in China 2000 years ago's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 127k–239k

best case 315k (Aliya: Timelink)

Games like The Three Kingdoms Era in China 2000 years ago

A typical game among these

≈ 127k–239k copies

≈ $356k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Aliya: Timelink at ≈ 240k–390k copies, ≈ $197k–$530k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 714 reviews in their first month; the range was 113 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Word Game (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Visual Novel, priced around $3.
When they shipped: Only 1 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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