How much revenue did DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince make?

$361k–$971k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince sell?

Q: How many copies did DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince sell?

33k to 53k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 33k–53k; $361k–$971k after Steam's cut $657k–$1.5M before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly 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 DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 282k–1.3M

best case 2.8M (Persona 4 Golden)

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The middle of these games

≈ 282k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.7M–$17.5M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Persona 4 Golden at ≈ 2.2M–3.5M copies, ≈ $11.9M–$31.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 913 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 82 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on JRPG (8 of 8) and Party-Based RPG (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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