How much revenue did Dark Messiah of Might & Magic make?

$15k–$39k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

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

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

5k to 9k copies, based on its 84 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $15k–$39k after Steam's cut $27k–$60k before the cut; from 84 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) 85k–1.8M

best case 4.4M (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009))

Games like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

The middle of these games

≈ 85k–1.8M copies

≈ $396k–$14.6M 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.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009) at ≈ 3.3M–5.4M copies, ≈ $13.8M–$37.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fantasy (8 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Fantasy, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2025, 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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