How much revenue did For The King make?

$7.3M–$19.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did For The King sell?

Q: How many copies did For The King sell?

1.3M to 2.2M copies, based on its 44k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.3M–2.2M; $7.3M–$19.7M after Steam's cut $13.3M–$30.2M before the cut; from 44k reviews (Very 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 For The King out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including For The King's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.8M–11.2M

best case 27.9M (Baldur's Gate 3)

Games like For The King

The middle of these games

≈ 5.8M–11.2M copies

≈ $40.9M–$191.3M after Steam's cut

from ~136k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Open World (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Baldur's Gate 3 at ≈ 21.2M–34.5M copies, ≈ $350.1M–$941.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (4 of 8) and Character Customization (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Choices Matter, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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