How much revenue did DARK SOULS™ III make?

$301.6M–$810.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DARK SOULS™ III sell?

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

18.3M to 29.7M copies, based on its 439k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18.3M–29.7M; $301.6M–$810.8M after Steam's cut $548.3M–$1247.4M before the cut; from 439k 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™ III out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DARK SOULS™ III's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.2M–28.3M

best case 39.3M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like DARK SOULS™ III

The middle of these games

≈ 8.2M–28.3M copies

≈ $92.8M–$450.5M after Steam's cut

from ~269k 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.

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 Mythology + Action RPG, 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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