How much revenue did Songs of Conquest make?

$2.8M–$7.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Songs of Conquest sell?

Q: How many copies did Songs of Conquest sell?

337k to 547k copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 337k–547k; $2.8M–$7.5M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.5M before Steam's cut; from 14k reviews (Very 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 Songs of Conquest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Songs of Conquest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 61k–524k

best case 2.0M (Sid Meier's Civilization VII)

Games like Songs of Conquest

A typical game among these

≈ 61k–524k copies

≈ $812k–$6.8M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Sid Meier's Civilization VII at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $29.7M–$79.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 325 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 4X (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Historical, priced around $70.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2026, and 3 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 38 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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