How much revenue did Sacred 3 make?

$1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sacred 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Sacred 3 sell?

250k to 406k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 250k–406k; $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly 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 Sacred 3 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sacred 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66k–726k

best case 11.7M (Castle Crashers®)

Games like Sacred 3

A typical game among these

≈ 66k–726k copies

≈ $379k–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Castle Crashers® at ≈ 8.9M–14.5M copies, ≈ $36.7M–$98.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 459 reviews in their first month; the range was 176 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (6 of 8) and Co-op (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Beat 'em up, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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