How much revenue did Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 make?

$254k–$682k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 sell?

Q: How many copies did Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 sell?

103k to 167k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 103k–167k; $254k–$682k after Steam's cut $461k–$1.0M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Battle of Empires : 1914-1918's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 352k–1.9M

best case 7.4M (Battlefield™ 1)

Games like Battle of Empires : 1914-1918

A typical game among these

≈ 352k–1.9M copies

≈ $3.5M–$9.6M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Battlefield™ 1 at ≈ 5.7M–9.2M copies, ≈ $62.3M–$167.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 1k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share War (5 of 8) and World War I (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + World War I, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Multiplayer + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2023, 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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Battlefield™ 1 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.7M–9.2M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $62.3M–$167.4M after Steam's cut $113.2M–$257.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	228k reviews Very Positive	FPSMultiplayer
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