How much revenue did Dragon Age™: The Veilguard make?

$18.4M–$49.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dragon Age™: The Veilguard sell?

Q: How many copies did Dragon Age™: The Veilguard sell?

1.1M to 1.8M copies, based on its 45k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.8M; $18.4M–$49.4M after Steam's cut $33.4M–$76.0M before the cut; from 45k 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 Dragon Age™: The Veilguard out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dragon Age™: The Veilguard's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–2.2M

best case 2.3M (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered)

Games like Dragon Age™: The Veilguard

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–2.2M copies

≈ $23.9M–$38.8M after Steam's cut

from ~67k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Fantasy (3 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: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $23.8M–$64.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 48k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fantasy (3 of 8) and LGBTQ+ (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Fantasy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, and 3 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 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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