How many copies did Dysterra sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 771 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Dysterra make?

Dysterra is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Dysterra?

Estimated owners: ≈ 19k–31k; from 771 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–4.2M

best case 7.3M (Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2)

Games like Dysterra

The middle of these games

≈ 3.5M–4.2M copies

≈ $41.7M–$62.1M after Steam's cut

from ~111k 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 Open World (3 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: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 at ≈ 5.5M–9.0M copies, ≈ $91.3M–$245.5M 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 36k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19k to 98k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (3 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Mythology, priced around $55. The breakout hits carry Action + Story Rich + Mythology; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 3 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 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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