How much revenue did Ryse: Son of Rome make?

$7.0M–$18.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ryse: Son of Rome sell?

Q: How many copies did Ryse: Son of Rome sell?

2.5M to 4.1M copies, based on its 45k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.5M–4.1M; $7.0M–$18.8M after Steam's cut $12.7M–$28.9M before Steam's cut; from 45k 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 Ryse: Son of Rome and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ryse: Son of Rome's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 502k–942k

best case 1.0M (STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition)

Games like Ryse: Son of Rome

A typical game among these

≈ 502k–942k copies

≈ $8.4M–$9.5M 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.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Hack and Slash (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: STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition at ≈ 776k–1.3M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 185 reviews in their first month; the range was 55 to 658.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (4 of 8) and Rome (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hack and Slash + Third Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, and 2 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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