How much revenue did Age of Giants make?

$58–$156 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Age of Giants sell?

Q: How many copies did Age of Giants sell?

213 to 346 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 213–346; $58–$156 after Steam's cut $105–$240 before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Age of Giants out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Age of Giants's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–13.7M

best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Age of Giants

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–13.7M copies

≈ $14.4M–$84.8M after Steam's cut

from ~111k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Tower Defense (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (4 of 8) and Base-Building (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45.
The era: The games you compared span 2000 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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