How much revenue did Old World make?

$1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Old World sell?

Q: How many copies did Old World sell?

170k to 276k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 170k–276k; $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.7M before the cut; from 7k 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 Old World out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Old World's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–10.9M

best case 20.7M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)

Games like Old World

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–10.9M copies

≈ $39.0M–$211.0M after Steam's cut

from ~114k 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® VI at ≈ 15.8M–25.6M copies, ≈ $259.9M–$698.7M 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 12k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Grand Strategy (8 of 8) and Historical (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Historical, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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