How much revenue did Four Last Things make?

$156k–$420k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Four Last Things sell?

Q: How many copies did Four Last Things sell?

57k to 92k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–92k; $156k–$420k after Steam's cut $284k–$645k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Four Last Things and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Four Last Things's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15.0M–20.1M

best case 20.7M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)

Games like Four Last Things

A typical game among these

≈ 15.0M–20.1M copies

≈ $195.8M–$407.4M after Steam's cut

from ~287k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI at ≈ 15.8M–25.7M copies, ≈ $260.5M–$700.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 63 reviews in their first month; the range was 29 to 108.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Historical (8 of 8) and 4X (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Historical, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, 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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Hearts of Iron IV 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.1M–24.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $207.7M–$558.4M after Steam's cut $377.6M–$859.1M before Steam's cut	$49.99	363k reviews Very Positive	StrategyWorld War II
Sid Meier's Civilization® V 2010	Est. copies ≈ 13.3M–21.7M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $110.0M–$295.6M after Steam's cut $199.9M–$454.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	211k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Turn-Based StrategyStrategy
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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.8M–25.7M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $260.5M–$700.4M after Steam's cut $473.7M–$1077.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	380k reviews Very Positive	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
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