How much revenue did ANCIENT RUS VS LIZARDS make?

$419–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ANCIENT RUS VS LIZARDS sell?

Q: How many copies did ANCIENT RUS VS LIZARDS sell?

2k copies, based on its 62 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k; $419–$1k after Steam's cut $761–$2k before Steam's cut; from 62 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 ANCIENT RUS VS LIZARDS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ANCIENT RUS VS LIZARDS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 635–5.0M

best case 20.7M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)

Games like ANCIENT RUS VS LIZARDS

A typical game among these

≈ 635–5.0M copies

≈ $4k–$287.3M after Steam's cut

from ~152 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI at ≈ 15.8M–25.7M copies, ≈ $260.5M–$700.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 445.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Historical (5 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Historical, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 3 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 52 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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