How much revenue did ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV make?

$6.7M–$17.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV sell?

Q: How many copies did ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV sell?

404k to 656k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 404k–656k; $6.7M–$17.9M after Steam's cut $12.1M–$27.6M before Steam's cut; from 16k reviews (Mixed)

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 ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 158k–500k

best case 1.3M (Company of Heroes 3)

Games like ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV

A typical game among these

≈ 158k–500k copies

≈ $1.9M–$10.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Company of Heroes 3 at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $16.5M–$44.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 825 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8) and Wargame (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + RTS, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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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