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?

208k to 338k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 208k–338k; $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.1M before Steam's cut; from 5k reviews (Mostly 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 Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

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

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–2.0M copies

≈ $8.9M–$30.7M after Steam's cut

from ~44k 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: Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition at ≈ 2.4M–3.9M copies, ≈ $26.1M–$70.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (8 of 8) and RTS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + Base-Building, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, 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 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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