How much revenue did Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced make?

$13k–$35k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced sell?

Q: How many copies did Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 193 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $24k–$54k before Steam's cut; from 193 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 Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 557k–1.1M

best case 1.7M (Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™)

Games like Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced

A typical game among these

≈ 557k–1.1M copies

≈ $3.7M–$13.9M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $14.3M–$38.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 4X (7 of 8) and Sci-fi (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Sci-fi, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2021, and none of them 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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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $14.3M–$38.4M after Steam's cut $26.0M–$59.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	23k reviews Mixed	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
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