How much revenue did Dragon Creek make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dragon Creek sell?

Q: How many copies did Dragon Creek sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 149 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before the cut; from 149 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 Dragon Creek out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dragon Creek's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–47k

best case 1.4M (ROUNDS)

Games like Dragon Creek

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–47k copies

≈ $34k–$462k after Steam's cut

from ~413 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Time Management (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: ROUNDS at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.9M 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 711 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 101 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Time Management (4 of 8) and Life Sim (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + 2D Fighter, priced around $6. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Fighting + Local Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 43 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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