How much revenue did Empires in Ruins make?

$18k–$48k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Empires in Ruins sell?

Q: How many copies did Empires in Ruins sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 145 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $18k–$48k after Steam's cut $32k–$74k before the cut; from 145 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 Empires in Ruins out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Empires in Ruins's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–31k

best case 795k (Stronghold Kingdoms)

Games like Empires in Ruins

The middle of these games

≈ 17k–31k copies

≈ $63k–$300k after Steam's cut

from ~761 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Stronghold Kingdoms at ≈ 606k–984k copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 486 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 58 to 841.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (8 of 8) and Medieval (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + City Builder. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Massively Multiplayer + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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