How much revenue did DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition make?

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition sell?

5.0M to 8.1M copies, based on its 79k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.0M–8.1M; from 79k 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 SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.3M–37.5M

best case 39.3M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 7.3M–37.5M copies

≈ $84.7M–$869.2M after Steam's cut

from ~355k reviews

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

All 5 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.7M copies, ≈ $494.5M–$1329.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 347k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 102k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Souls-like (5 of 5) and Action RPG (3 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 2 of your 5 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 38 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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