How much revenue did Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms make?

$8k–$22k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms sell?

Q: How many copies did Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 122 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$34k before Steam's cut; from 122 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 Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–3.4M

best case 11.1M (Europa Universalis IV)

Games like Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms

A typical game among these

≈ 37k–3.4M copies

≈ $272k–$65.9M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Wargame (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Europa Universalis IV at ≈ 8.5M–13.8M copies, ≈ $116.6M–$313.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Wargame (4 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Historical, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 1 of the 7 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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