How much revenue did DARK SOULS™ II make?

$28.8M–$77.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DARK SOULS™ II sell?

Q: How many copies did DARK SOULS™ II sell?

2.6M to 4.3M copies, based on its 47k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.6M–4.3M; $28.8M–$77.5M after Steam's cut $52.4M–$119.2M before the cut; from 47k 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 SOULS™ II out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DARK SOULS™ II's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.3M–12.3M

best case 39.3M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like DARK SOULS™ II

The middle of these games

≈ 7.3M–12.3M copies

≈ $87.4M–$276.6M after Steam's cut

from ~250k 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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.7M copies, ≈ $494.5M–$1329.5M 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 224k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 92k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Souls-like (7 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Action RPG, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Action RPG + Open World + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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