How much revenue did Pennon and Battle make?

$24k–$64k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pennon and Battle sell?

Q: How many copies did Pennon and Battle sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 183 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $24k–$64k after Steam's cut $43k–$98k before Steam's cut; from 183 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 Pennon and Battle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pennon and Battle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 194k–524k

best case 2.0M (Sid Meier's Civilization VII)

Games like Pennon and Battle

A typical game among these

≈ 194k–524k copies

≈ $1.8M–$6.8M 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 VII at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $29.7M–$79.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 483 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 4X (7 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Historical, priced around $70.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2026, 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 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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