How much revenue did Desktop Magic Engine make?

$22k–$58k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Desktop Magic Engine sell?

Q: How many copies did Desktop Magic Engine sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 794 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $22k–$58k after Steam's cut $39k–$89k before the cut; from 794 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Desktop Magic Engine out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Desktop Magic Engine's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 464k–2.3M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Desktop Magic Engine

The middle of these games

≈ 464k–2.3M copies

≈ $3.7M–$5.9M after Steam's cut

from ~17k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Utilities (5 of 8) and Design & Illustration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Mature + Anime + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2024, and 1 of your 7 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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