How much revenue did Rumours of a Roman Empire make?

$83–$221 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rumours of a Roman Empire sell?

Q: How many copies did Rumours of a Roman Empire sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $83–$221 after Steam's cut $150–$340 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Rumours of a Roman Empire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rumours of a Roman Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–3.6M

best case 10.3M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Rumours of a Roman Empire

A typical game among these

≈ 1.7M–3.6M copies

≈ $7.8M–$16.4M after Steam's cut

from ~50k 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: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (6 of 8) and Dating Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 61 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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