How much revenue did Merchant in Dungeon make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Merchant in Dungeon sell?

Q: How many copies did Merchant in Dungeon sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 120 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before the cut; from 120 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 Merchant in Dungeon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Merchant in Dungeon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 413k–1.3M

best case 2.3M (NBA 2K20)

Games like Merchant in Dungeon

The middle of these games

≈ 413k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.5M–$14.3M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: NBA 2K20 at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Capitalism (6 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Basketball + Sports.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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