How much revenue did Dual Universe make?

Dual Universe is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Dual Universe sell?

Q: How many copies did Dual Universe sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 565 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; from 565 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 Dual Universe out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dual Universe's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–5.9M

best case 9.4M (Kerbal Space Program)

Games like Dual Universe

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–5.9M copies

≈ $19.4M–$53.6M after Steam's cut

from ~92k 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: Kerbal Space Program at ≈ 7.1M–11.6M copies, ≈ $78.6M–$211.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (6 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Simulation, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, and none of them 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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