How many copies did Albion Online sell?

2.9M to 4.6M copies, based on its 94k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Albion Online make?

Albion Online is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Albion Online?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 2.9M–4.6M; from 94k 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 Albion Online and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Albion Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 245k–574k

best case 9.7M (New World: Aeternum)

Games like Albion Online

A typical game among these

≈ 245k–574k copies

≈ $6.7M–$6.9M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: New World: Aeternum at ≈ 7.4M–12.0M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 145k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share MMORPG (8 of 8) and Open World (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + MMORPG, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Action; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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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