How much revenue did Swords and Sandals Medieval make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Swords and Sandals Medieval sell?

Q: How many copies did Swords and Sandals Medieval sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 54 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $6k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 54 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 Swords and Sandals Medieval and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Swords and Sandals Medieval's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 228–9k

best case 37k (Swords and Sandals Immortals)

Games like Swords and Sandals Medieval

A typical game among these

≈ 228–9k copies

≈ $572–$42k after Steam's cut

from ~47 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Swords and Sandals Immortals at ≈ 28k–45k copies, ≈ $92k–$248k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 693.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Combat (7 of 8) and Strategy RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $12.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, 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 43 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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Swords and Sandals 2 Redux 2017	Est. copies ≈ 20k–33k 13x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $55k–$148k after Steam's cut $100k–$228k before Steam's cut	$9.99	584 reviews Mostly Positive	2D FighterTurn-Based Combat
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