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How many copies did Swag and Sorcery sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 94k–152k
$335k–$901k after Steam's cut $609k–$1.4M before Steam's cut
from 3k 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 Swag and Sorcery and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Swag and Sorcery's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.1M–14.7M
best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)
Games like Swag and Sorcery

A typical game among these

≈ 10.1M–14.7M copies

≈ $93.4M–$211.9M after Steam's cut

from ~249k 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.7M–97.0M copies, ≈ $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Relaxing + Driving + Transportation; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2025, 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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