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How many copies did Dark Messiah of Might & Magic sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 745k–1.2M
$2.0M–$5.5M after Steam's cut $3.7M–$8.5M before the cut
from 12k 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 Dark Messiah of Might & Magic out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark Messiah of Might & Magic's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 81k–225k
best case 2.0M (Blade and Sorcery)
Games like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

The middle of these games

≈ 81k–225k copies

≈ $500k–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Blade and Sorcery at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $12.7M–$34.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 293 to 49k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Swordplay (7 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with VR + Swordplay, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2006 to 2024, and 1 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 79 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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