How much revenue did Parkan: Iron Strategy make?

$850–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Parkan: Iron Strategy sell?

Q: How many copies did Parkan: Iron Strategy sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $850–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 34 reviews (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 Parkan: Iron Strategy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Parkan: Iron Strategy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–713k

best case 4.6M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Parkan: Iron Strategy

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–713k copies

≈ $112k–$7.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 497 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (5 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 61 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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Crusader Kings III 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.7M 38x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut $88.4M–$201.1M before Steam's cut	$49.99	143k reviews Very Positive	StrategyMedieval
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