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How many copies did Tribes of Midgard sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 577k–938k
$3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before Steam's cut
from 23k 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 Tribes of Midgard and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tribes of Midgard's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 176k–503k
best case 3.5M (Enshrouded)
Games like Tribes of Midgard

A typical game among these

≈ 176k–503k copies

≈ $1.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Enshrouded at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies, ≈ $29.0M–$77.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 35k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Crafting (5 of 8) and Survival (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $40.
When they shipped
4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.
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 52 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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