How much revenue did ELDEN RING make?

$471.3M–$1267.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ELDEN RING sell?

Q: How many copies did ELDEN RING sell?

28.6M to 46.4M copies, based on its 1.2M Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28.6M–46.4M; $471.3M–$1267.1M after Steam's cut $856.9M–$1949.4M before the cut; from 1.2M reviews (Very 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 ELDEN RING out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ELDEN RING's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21.3M–30.7M

best case 39.3M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like ELDEN RING

The middle of these games

≈ 21.3M–30.7M copies

≈ $189.3M–$711.2M after Steam's cut

from ~499k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Souls-like (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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.7M copies, ≈ $494.5M–$1329.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 268k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 129k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Souls-like (4 of 8) and Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 2011	Est. copies ≈ 20.1M–32.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut $200.7M–$456.6M before the cut	$19.99	318k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
Black Myth: Wukong 2024	Est. copies ≈ 30.0M–48.7M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $494.5M–$1329.5M after Steam's cut $899.1M–$2045.4M before the cut	$59.99	1.2M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MythologyAction RPG
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