How much revenue did Knights of Honor II: Sovereign make?

$2.1M–$5.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Knights of Honor II: Sovereign sell?

Q: How many copies did Knights of Honor II: Sovereign sell?

168k to 273k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 168k–273k; $2.1M–$5.6M after Steam's cut $3.8M–$8.6M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 Knights of Honor II: Sovereign and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Knights of Honor II: Sovereign's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–5.7M

best case 4.6M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Knights of Honor II: Sovereign

A typical game among these

≈ 3.0M–5.7M copies

≈ $23.4M–$89.7M after Steam's cut

from ~83k 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: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 192 to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Grand Strategy (7 of 8) and Historical (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 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 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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