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How many copies did STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2.7M–4.4M
$15.0M–$40.4M after Steam's cut $27.3M–$62.2M before Steam's cut
from 43k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 617k–1.2M
best case 10.7M (Stellaris)
Games like STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack

A typical game among these

≈ 617k–1.2M copies

≈ $8.9M–$11.9M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.6M 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 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 26k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Space (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Space, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World + Exploration; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2008 to 2024, and 1 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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