How much revenue did Steelrising make?

$2.5M–$6.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Steelrising sell?

Q: How many copies did Steelrising sell?

181k to 293k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 181k–293k; $2.5M–$6.7M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.3M before the cut; from 7k 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 Steelrising out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steelrising's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.3M–27.4M

best case 39.3M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Steelrising

The middle of these games

≈ 5.3M–27.4M copies

≈ $78.5M–$712.7M after Steam's cut

from ~143k 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: 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 347k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Souls-like (8 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin 2015	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $70.7M–$190.0M after Steam's cut $128.5M–$292.3M before the cut	$39.99	132k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.7M–7.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $51.7M–$139.1M after Steam's cut $94.0M–$213.9M before the cut	$39.99	155k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Black Myth: Wukong 2024	Est. copies ≈ 30.0M–48.7M 8.4x 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
ELDEN RING 2022	Est. copies ≈ 28.6M–46.4M 8.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $471.3M–$1267.1M after Steam's cut $856.9M–$1949.4M before the cut	$59.99	1.2M reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeOpen World
Lies of P 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $33.4M–$89.7M after Steam's cut $60.7M–$138.1M before the cut	$59.99	82k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeAction
DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition 2012	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	79k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeRPG
CODE VEIN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.7M–$79.7M after Steam's cut $53.9M–$122.7M before the cut	$59.99	62k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeAnime
DARK SOULS™ III 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18.3M–29.7M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $301.6M–$810.8M after Steam's cut $548.3M–$1247.4M before the cut	$59.99	439k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy