How much revenue did Victoria 3 make?

$20.8M–$55.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Victoria 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Victoria 3 sell?

1.5M to 2.5M copies, based on its 61k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.5M–2.5M; $20.8M–$55.9M after Steam's cut $37.8M–$86.0M before the cut; from 61k 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 Victoria 3 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Victoria 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–6.4M

best case 17.5M (Sid Meier's Civilization® V)

Games like Victoria 3

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–6.4M copies

≈ $14.0M–$118.3M after Steam's cut

from ~75k 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: Sid Meier's Civilization® V at ≈ 13.3M–21.6M copies, ≈ $109.8M–$295.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Grand Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Turn-Based, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, and 3 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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