How much revenue did Dust Courier make?

$143–$384 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dust Courier sell?

Q: How many copies did Dust Courier sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $143–$384 after Steam's cut $260–$590 before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Dust Courier out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dust Courier's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 450k–3.0M

best case 5.5M (Frostpunk)

Games like Dust Courier

The middle of these games

≈ 450k–3.0M copies

≈ $1.1M–$13.4M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Dark Humor (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Frostpunk at ≈ 4.2M–6.8M copies, ≈ $34.4M–$92.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark Humor (3 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. 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 36 for the most recent game here to about 61 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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Graveyard Keeper 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.7M after Steam's cut $16.7M–$38.1M before the cut	$19.99	55k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsCrafting
Fallout Shelter 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	83k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayBase-Building
60 Seconds! Reatomized 2019	Est. copies ≈ 561k–912k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before the cut	$9.99	19k reviews Very Positive	2DChoose Your Own Adventure
60 Seconds! 2015	Est. copies ≈ 570k–927k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.8M before the cut	$8.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based TacticsExploration
60 Parsecs! 2018	Est. copies ≈ 124k–202k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $342k–$919k after Steam's cut $621k–$1.4M before the cut	$9.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based StrategyText-Based
Frostpunk 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M 7.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.4M–$92.4M after Steam's cut $62.5M–$142.2M before the cut	$29.99	137k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Survival
First Day 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	135 reviews Mixed	IndieSurvival
Despotism 3k 2018	Est. copies ≈ 117k–190k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $256k–$689k after Steam's cut $466k–$1.1M before the cut	$7.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyIndie