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How many copies did DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 82k–133k
$1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before the cut
from 2k reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 35k–87k
best case 224k (WARRIORS OROCHI 4)
Games like DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires

The middle of these games

≈ 35k–87k copies

≈ $819k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: WARRIORS OROCHI 4 at ≈ 170k–277k copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 531 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 163 to 765.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (8 of 8) and Musou (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Hack and Slash + Musou, priced around $60.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 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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