How much revenue did DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO make?

$24.7M–$66.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO sell?

Q: How many copies did DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO sell?

1.8M to 2.9M copies, based on its 73k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.8M–2.9M; $24.7M–$66.5M after Steam's cut $45.0M–$102.3M before the cut; from 73k 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 DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 715k–1.0M

best case 4.3M (TEKKEN 7)

Games like DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO

The middle of these games

≈ 715k–1.0M copies

≈ $9.7M–$10.7M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: TEKKEN 7 at ≈ 3.3M–5.3M copies, ≈ $36.1M–$97.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fighting (7 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + Arcade, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Arcade + Local Multiplayer + Competitive; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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