How much revenue did YAR: Forgotten Throne make?

$187k–$501k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did YAR: Forgotten Throne sell?

Q: How many copies did YAR: Forgotten Throne sell?

34k to 55k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–55k; $187k–$501k after Steam's cut $339k–$771k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Very 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 YAR: Forgotten Throne and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including YAR: Forgotten Throne's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20k–360k

best case 1.4M (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition)

Games like YAR: Forgotten Throne

A typical game among these

≈ 20k–360k copies

≈ $86k–$5.0M 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.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action RPG (3 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: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 404 reviews in their first month; the range was 59 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (3 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Third Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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