How much revenue did Barony make?

$4.9M–$13.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Barony sell?

Q: How many copies did Barony sell?

888k to 1.4M copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 888k–1.4M; $4.9M–$13.1M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.2M before Steam's cut; from 18k 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 Barony and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Barony's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 229k–286k

best case 3.4M (Gunfire Reborn)

Games like Barony

A typical game among these

≈ 229k–286k copies

≈ $1.8M–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Gunfire Reborn at ≈ 2.6M–4.2M copies, ≈ $14.2M–$38.1M 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 2k to 63k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (7 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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