How much revenue did Dawnfolk make?

$74k–$199k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dawnfolk sell?

Q: How many copies did Dawnfolk sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 723 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $74k–$199k after Steam's cut $134k–$306k before the cut; from 723 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 Dawnfolk out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dawnfolk's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 69k–105k

best case 1.2M (Against the Storm)

Games like Dawnfolk

The middle of these games

≈ 69k–105k copies

≈ $349k–$727k 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Against the Storm at ≈ 926k–1.5M copies, ≈ $7.6M–$20.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 279 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-lite (6 of 8) and City Builder (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Building + Base-Building + Colony Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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