How much revenue did Gary Grigsby's War in the East make?

$629k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gary Grigsby's War in the East sell?

Q: How many copies did Gary Grigsby's War in the East sell?

29k to 46k copies, based on its 586 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–46k; $629k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut; from 586 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 Gary Grigsby's War in the East and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gary Grigsby's War in the East's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 263k–410k

best case 11.1M (Europa Universalis IV)

Games like Gary Grigsby's War in the East

A typical game among these

≈ 263k–410k copies

≈ $2.1M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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. 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 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Grand Strategy (8 of 8) and Wargame (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Military, priced around $55. The breakout hits carry 4X + Alternate History + Military; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2026, 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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