How much revenue did Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons make?

$295k–$793k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons sell?

Q: How many copies did Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons sell?

43k to 70k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–70k; $295k–$793k after Steam's cut $536k–$1.2M before the cut; from 2k 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 Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–5.4M

best case 10.0M (Cuphead)

Games like Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–5.4M copies

≈ $8.8M–$36.2M after Steam's cut

from ~45k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Cuphead at ≈ 7.6M–12.3M copies, ≈ $41.7M–$112.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (3 of 4) and Co-op (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $20.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2017. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 43 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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