SteamdDB mostly. 200k minimum amount of owners is really sadly.
Also I look at other games where Paradox is publisher.
Surviving Mars is REALLY similar example. 2 major DLCs release, end of development, start of development of a new game.
Cities Skyline - released at 2015 (by small studio too), has a ton of DLCs, huge and active playerbase.
Let's guess what game was more profitable...
The post from
Jordi Engel just proves my opinion. If you don't want to share an amount of sales (even approximately) then it's just nothing to boast about.
Corporations tend to be very tight lipped about how many copies of a game they sold. I don't see why paradox is any different. Since it was mentioned in interim report of 2020 which is basically invasions dlc.. Seems like it sold well.
Just because there isn't millions of players lining up to pvp online doesn't mean its a failure.
Let's see..
August 11, 2020
Interim report January – June 2020
MSEK seems to be abbervation for swedish currency.
SECOND QUARTER 2020
- Revenues amounted to MSEK 464.9 (MSEK 387.2), an increase by 20 % compared to the same period last year.
- Operating profit amounted to MSEK 199.0 (MSEK 154.2), an increase by 29 %.
- Profit after financial items amounted to MSEK 197.7 (MSEK 154.0), and profit after tax amounted to MSEK 154.5 (MSEK 120.3).
- Cash flow from operating activities amounted to MSEK 278.5 (MSEK 232.7), and cash flow from investing activities amounted to MSEK -148.4 (MSEK -104.9).
- By the end of the period cash amounted to MSEK 637.2 (MSEK 396.4).
- Earnings per share amounted to SEK 1.46 (1.14) after dilution.
- Revenues in the quarter are mainly attributable to Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Cities: Skylines, Europa Universalis IV, Hearts of Iron IV and Stellaris.
It does seem to be quite a success.
There is several estimations to use.
If we were to use this,
Then Planetfall sold somewhere in range of 134,700 to 188,580 copies.
Now let us take a look at AOW: 3.
273,550 to 382,970 copies sold.
Then other source to check is the steamspy. it only can give me an estimation and i don't feel like registering to find out.
And steamspy tells a fuller story compared to the reddit estimation.
Steam Spy automatically gathers data from Steam user profiles, analyzes it and presents in simple, yet beautiful, manner. Steam Spy is designed to be helpful for indie developers, journalists, students and all parties interested in PC gaming and its current state of affairs.
steamspy.com
Stats for Planetfall
Release date: Aug 6, 2019
Price: $49.99
Old userscore: 79%
Metascore: 81%
Owners: 200,000 .. 500,000
Followers: 76,475
Peak concurrent players yesterday: 633
YouTube stats: 2,269 views and 70 comments for top 50 videos uploaded last week, 3 new videos uploaded yesterday.
Playtime total: 05:08 (average) 06:23 (median)
Now let us view stats for AoW: 3 . . .
Steam Spy automatically gathers data from Steam user profiles, analyzes it and presents in simple, yet beautiful, manner. Steam Spy is designed to be helpful for indie developers, journalists, students and all parties interested in PC gaming and its current state of affairs.
steamspy.com
Release date: Mar 31, 2014
Price: $29.99
Old userscore: 79%
Metascore: 80%
Owners: 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000
Followers: 66,565
Peak concurrent players yesterday: 674
YouTube stats: 1,543 views and 106 comments for top 50 videos uploaded last week, 2 new videos uploaded yesterday.
Playtime in the last 2 weeks: 00:13 (average) 00:13 (median)
Playtime total: 07:53 (average) 02:47 (median)
What this tells us is that AOW3 clearly lost some players to Planetfall.
Yet, number of active players is roughly equal meaning Planetfall successfully brought awareness to the series to new players that has never heard of Age of Wonders before simply by entering sci-fi genre.
I am aware that AOW3 had at least two releases for free and the owner count is likely inflated by players trying it out and didn't like it or liked it.
Concurrent players is other interesting statistic to look at. By looking at it, it means that Planetfall has helped double the amount of players playing Age of Wonders series and is a good indicatator that there is as many players that likes scifi as well as high fantasy.
Youtube views is in a decline for AOW3. Its likely because it's a older game and people has already seen very much of it. It still manages to generate more youtube comments than planetfall though which is another good thing probably.
Playtimes is weird and i'm not sure on what to think of it.
Disclaimer: Steamspy is in beta and i don't feel like registering~~~!!!
If we were to look at stellaris and sins of a solar empire numbers, both greatly outnumbers AOW series. I have sins of solar empire but not stellaris, They're both sorta of an simulator game. While Sins of Solar empire is more action oriented but ultimately its also a simulator. Lots of building stuff and researching and clicking and very boring combat.
People is attracted to different types of genres. I dare say Stellaris is more noob friendly than Planetfall. I played it once long time ago just so i could see what all the talk was about it. It was near the launch, I was dead last near the bottom of power ranking but I was inside a federation. And there was abunch of butthurt religion zealots to the south who kept on trying to conquer my space tigrans I uplifted for fun. It was very weak federation and we was more than equal to that butthurt religious zealots. And almost everyone else was an militarist xenophobic that trusted noone else, had strong military but didn't join a federation or made alliances so they left our federation alone because if they started a war, they'll get overmatched by entire federation strength which was basically just me plus three other AIs and two vassals I uplifted.
Only Religious zealots was foolish to keep on trying and they eventually got assimilated by us.
The whole game was like that, then endgame crisis happened.
The unbidden came to the galaxy to feast on everyone and started at opposite end of the galaxy from me. What did I do?
I spent next fifty years of ingame time Starting wars as a federation president against each militarist xenophobe one by one and having periods of strengthening and building my economy when my time as president was up. Gradually the route to Unbidden was opened by force.
At this point.. Half of galaxy is eaten by unbidden squatters. But I was now one of most powerful factions in the galaxy and I went and evicted the unbidden from galaxy all by myself. Then I never played Stellaris again. The end.
tl;dr version: I feel confident about Planetfall's success. Don't compare AoW3 and Planetfall to Stellaris and Sins of Solar Empire. Both of them is different genres which attract different players who has their own preferences.
If there was one thing that Planetfall has huge weakness in compared to AOW3, that would be the exploration phase.
The world is very very very tiny! And what's more worse? It loses the Underground that AOW3 had. ;_;