How much revenue did First Dwarf make?

$64k–$173k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did First Dwarf sell?

Q: How many copies did First Dwarf sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 378 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $64k–$173k after Steam's cut $117k–$266k before the cut; from 378 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 First Dwarf out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including First Dwarf's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.9M–14.2M

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like First Dwarf

The middle of these games

≈ 4.9M–14.2M copies

≈ $48.0M–$128.4M after Steam's cut

from ~297k 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 Co-op (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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 54k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 470k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2020 to 2026, 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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