How much revenue did Doodle Empires make?

$63k–$169k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Doodle Empires sell?

Q: How many copies did Doodle Empires sell?

33k to 53k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 33k–53k; $63k–$169k after Steam's cut $114k–$260k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Doodle Empires and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Doodle Empires's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 484k–2.0M

best case 11.1M (Europa Universalis IV)

Games like Doodle Empires

A typical game among these

≈ 484k–2.0M copies

≈ $4.0M–$25.5M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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: Europa Universalis IV at ≈ 8.5M–13.8M copies, ≈ $116.6M–$313.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 332 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Grand Strategy (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Historical, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2026, 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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