How much revenue did Kingdoms and Castles make?

$6.0M–$16.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kingdoms and Castles sell?

Q: How many copies did Kingdoms and Castles sell?

1.1M to 1.8M copies, based on its 32k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.8M; $6.0M–$16.0M after Steam's cut $10.8M–$24.6M before Steam's cut; from 32k reviews (Very 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 Kingdoms and Castles and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kingdoms and Castles's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.5M–7.5M

best case 9.7M (Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord)

Games like Kingdoms and Castles

A typical game among these

≈ 6.5M–7.5M copies

≈ $87.3M–$106.1M after Steam's cut

from ~178k 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: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at ≈ 7.4M–12.0M copies, ≈ $101.7M–$273.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 70k reviews in their first month; the range was 22k to 200k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Medieval (8 of 8) and Historical (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Open World, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry War + Sandbox + Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 2022	Est. copies ≈ 7.4M–12.0M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $101.7M–$273.3M after Steam's cut $184.8M–$420.5M before Steam's cut	$49.99	298k reviews Very Positive	MedievalStrategy
Crusader Kings III 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut $88.4M–$201.1M before Steam's cut	$49.99	143k reviews Very Positive	StrategyMedieval
Mount & Blade: Warband 2010	Est. copies ≈ 10.9M–17.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $59.8M–$160.9M after Steam's cut $108.8M–$247.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	172k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MedievalRPG
Age of Empires II (Retired) 2013	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.6M too small to compare SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $35.7M–$96.1M after Steam's cut $65.0M–$147.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	103k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StrategyRTS
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5.3M–8.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $50.7M–$136.2M after Steam's cut $92.1M–$209.6M before Steam's cut	$34.99	183k reviews Very Positive	StrategyRTS
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.7M–9.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $46.7M–$125.6M after Steam's cut $84.9M–$193.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	186k reviews Very Positive	MedievalRPG
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II 2025	Est. copies ≈ 4.9M–7.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $80.4M–$216.0M after Steam's cut $146.1M–$332.4M before Steam's cut	$59.99	196k reviews Very Positive	RPGMedieval
FOR HONOR™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.7M–9.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $46.9M–$126.2M after Steam's cut $85.3M–$194.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	165k reviews Mixed	MedievalSwordplay