How much revenue did DSX make?

$475k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DSX sell?

Q: How many copies did DSX sell?

216k to 351k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 216k–351k; $475k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $864k–$2.0M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34k–940k

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like DSX

The middle of these games

≈ 34k–940k copies

≈ $40k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 343 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 145 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Software (7 of 8) and Utilities (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of your 7 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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