How much revenue did ♞ The Tactics of War ♞ make?

$35k–$94k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ♞ The Tactics of War ♞ sell?

Q: How many copies did ♞ The Tactics of War ♞ sell?

638 to 1k copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 638–1k; $35k–$94k after Steam's cut $64k–$145k before Steam's cut; from 21 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 ♞ The Tactics of War ♞ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ♞ The Tactics of War ♞'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–2.9M

best case 10.7M (Stellaris)

Games like ♞ The Tactics of War ♞

A typical game among these

≈ 1.9M–2.9M copies

≈ $19.4M–$27.8M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 19k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Building, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Grand Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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