How much revenue did Is It Wrong to Repay the Debt in a Dungeon? make?

$17k–$47k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Is It Wrong to Repay the Debt in a Dungeon? sell?

Q: How many copies did Is It Wrong to Repay the Debt in a Dungeon? sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 142 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $17k–$47k after Steam's cut $32k–$72k before the cut; from 142 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 Is It Wrong to Repay the Debt in a Dungeon? out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Is It Wrong to Repay the Debt in a Dungeon?'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–4.7M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Is It Wrong to Repay the Debt in a Dungeon?

The middle of these games

≈ 2.8M–4.7M copies

≈ $5.3M–$18.4M after Steam's cut

from ~86k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Anime (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (4 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Design & Illustration + Animation & Modeling + Mature; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2023, 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 43 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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Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
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Muse Dash 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.0M before the cut	$2.99	122k reviews Very Positive	MusicRhythm
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