How much revenue did The Dragon Apprentice make?

$366–$991 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Dragon Apprentice sell?

Q: How many copies did The Dragon Apprentice sell?

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

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $366–$991 after Steam's cut $666–$2k before the cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Thin evidence: 3 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 334k–8.2M

best case 20.5M (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition)

Games like The Dragon Apprentice

The middle of these games

≈ 334k–8.2M copies

≈ $2.6M–$110.5M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition at ≈ 15.6M–25.4M copies, ≈ $172.0M–$462.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fantasy (7 of 8) and Dragons (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Fantasy, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 2 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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