How much revenue did Down the Drain make?

$478–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Down the Drain sell?

Q: How many copies did Down the Drain sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $478–$1k after Steam's cut $869–$2k before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 72k–614k

best case 4.0M (Hades II)

Games like Down the Drain

The middle of these games

≈ 72k–614k copies

≈ $596k–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hades II at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 782 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 273 to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and Action Roguelike (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Rogue-lite, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 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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