How much revenue did Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation make?

$1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation sell?

Q: How many copies did Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation sell?

207k to 337k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 207k–337k; $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.1M before the cut; from 5k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–2.0M

best case 3.1M (Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition)

Games like Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–2.0M copies

≈ $8.8M–$30.6M after Steam's cut

from ~44k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition at ≈ 2.4M–3.8M copies, ≈ $26.0M–$70.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (8 of 8) and RTS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + Base-Building, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 38 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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