How much revenue did Dwerve make?

$75k–$202k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dwerve sell?

Q: How many copies did Dwerve sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 550 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $75k–$202k after Steam's cut $136k–$310k before the cut; from 550 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 Dwerve out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dwerve's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 781–1k

best case 2.9M (Noita)

Games like Dwerve

The middle of these games

≈ 781–1k copies

≈ $2k–$7k after Steam's cut

from ~28 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Dungeon Crawler (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Noita at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 22 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12 to 17k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (4 of 8) and Tower Defense (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Physics + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Noita 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 3165x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut $22.0M–$50.0M before the cut	$19.99	89k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PhysicsRogue-like
BLOOD RITE 2023	Est. copies ≈ 471–766 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $646–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut	$4.99	19 reviews Positive	Auto BattlerTower Defense
Guardians of the Sanctree 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k 13x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $51k–$137k after Steam's cut $92k–$210k before the cut	$19.99	373 reviews Mostly Positive	Base-BuildingOnline Co-Op
One Shell Straight to Hell 2021	Est. copies ≈ 794–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before the cut	$19.99	32 reviews Mixed	Action RoguelikeTwin Stick Shooter
Kalyzmyr 2024	Est. copies ≈ 918–1k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $755–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut	$2.99	37 reviews Positive	ActionHack and Slash
Miolhr 2022	Est. copies ≈ 595–967 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut	$16.99	24 reviews Mixed	StrategyRPG
Tunnel of Doom 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before the cut	$13.99	58 reviews Mixed	Action RoguelikeDungeon Crawler
The Guardian Stone 2022	Est. copies ≈ 595–967 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut	$14.99	24 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureRPG