How much revenue did Dragon Ruins make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dragon Ruins sell?

Q: How many copies did Dragon Ruins sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 372 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before the cut; from 372 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 Dragon Ruins out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dragon Ruins's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 944–30k

best case 756k (Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition)

Games like Dragon Ruins

The middle of these games

≈ 944–30k copies

≈ $20k–$85k after Steam's cut

from ~119 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition at ≈ 576k–935k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 104 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Auto Battler (5 of 8) and Action RPG (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 2 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 70 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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