How much revenue did Ancestors Legacy make?

$2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ancestors Legacy sell?

Q: How many copies did Ancestors Legacy sell?

263k to 428k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 263k–428k; $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut $4.6M–$10.5M before Steam's cut; from 9k reviews (Mostly 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 Ancestors Legacy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ancestors Legacy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.1M–6.1M

best case 6.9M (Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition)

Games like Ancestors Legacy

A typical game among these

≈ 3.1M–6.1M copies

≈ $56.8M–$65.6M after Steam's cut

from ~74k 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: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition at ≈ 5.3M–8.6M copies, ≈ $50.7M–$136.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Historical (7 of 8) and RTS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + City Builder, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry City Builder + Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2021, and none of them 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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Total War: ATTILA 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M too small to compare SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.1M–$27.3M after Steam's cut $18.4M–$41.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	38k reviews Very Positive	StrategyHistorical
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