How much revenue did Burden of Command™ make?

$112k–$302k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Burden of Command™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Burden of Command™ sell?

16k to 27k copies, based on its 658 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–27k; $112k–$302k after Steam's cut $204k–$464k before Steam's cut; from 658 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 Burden of Command™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Burden of Command™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20k–71k

best case 285k (Partisans 1941)

Games like Burden of Command™

A typical game among these

≈ 20k–71k copies

≈ $261k–$345k after Steam's cut

from ~687 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Partisans 1941 at ≈ 218k–353k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 132 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tactical RPG (7 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Real Time Tactics + World War II, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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