How many copies did DESOLATIUM: Prologue sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 121 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did DESOLATIUM: Prologue make?

DESOLATIUM: Prologue is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is DESOLATIUM: Prologue?

Estimated owners: ≈ 3k–5k; from 121 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 DESOLATIUM: Prologue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DESOLATIUM: Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.1M–5.3M

best case 5.8M (Stray)

Games like DESOLATIUM: Prologue

The middle of these games

≈ 3.1M–5.3M copies

≈ $16.6M–$40.4M after Steam's cut

from ~88k 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: Stray at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $36.3M–$97.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 39k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cats + Cyberpunk, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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