How much revenue did The Valiant make?

$57k–$154k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Valiant sell?

Q: How many copies did The Valiant sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 337 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; $57k–$154k after Steam's cut $104k–$238k before Steam's cut; from 337 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 The Valiant and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Valiant's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–4.1M

best case 6.9M (Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition)

Games like The Valiant

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–4.1M copies

≈ $5.9M–$61.5M after Steam's cut

from ~33k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition at ≈ 5.3M–8.6M copies, ≈ $50.7M–$136.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 236 reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Medieval (8 of 8) and RTS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + City Builder, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2025, and 3 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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