How much revenue did Ancient Enemy make?

$59k–$160k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ancient Enemy sell?

Q: How many copies did Ancient Enemy sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 513 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $59k–$160k after Steam's cut $108k–$246k before Steam's cut; from 513 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 Ancient Enemy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ancient Enemy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 167k–289k

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Ancient Enemy

A typical game among these

≈ 167k–289k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Card Battler (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.3M–$54.6M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Battler (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Horror + Dark + Rogue-lite; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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