How much revenue did DLC Quest make?

$324k–$871k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DLC Quest sell?

Q: How many copies did DLC Quest sell?

394k to 640k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 394k–640k; $324k–$871k after Steam's cut $589k–$1.3M before the cut; from 6k 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 DLC Quest out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DLC Quest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 59k–162k

best case 263k (Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures)

Games like DLC Quest

The middle of these games

≈ 59k–162k copies

≈ $277k–$530k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures at ≈ 200k–325k copies, ≈ $275k–$739k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 51 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 682.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and Comedy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Comedy, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 3 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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Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures 2013	Est. copies ≈ 200k–325k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $275k–$739k after Steam's cut $500k–$1.1M before the cut	$4.99	3k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerIndie
Goblins and Grottos 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3k–6k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$23k after Steam's cut $15k–$35k before the cut	$8.99	82 reviews Mixed	ComedyLevel Editor
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