How much revenue did Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen make?

$16.8M–$45.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen sell?

Q: How many copies did Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen sell?

2.0M to 3.3M copies, based on its 49k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.0M–3.3M; $16.8M–$45.2M after Steam's cut $30.6M–$69.5M before the cut; from 49k 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's Dogma: Dark Arisen out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.1M–20.5M

best case 20.6M (Monster Hunter: World)

Games like Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

The middle of these games

≈ 9.1M–20.5M copies

≈ $110.8M–$259.5M after Steam's cut

from ~323k 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: Monster Hunter: World at ≈ 15.7M–25.5M copies, ≈ $129.4M–$347.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 171k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 145k to 183k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (7 of 8) and Character Customization (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Open World, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, 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 79 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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