How much revenue did DvDrum, Ultimate Drum Simulator! make?

$30k–$82k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DvDrum, Ultimate Drum Simulator! sell?

Q: How many copies did DvDrum, Ultimate Drum Simulator! sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 129 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $30k–$82k after Steam's cut $55k–$126k before the cut; from 129 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 DvDrum, Ultimate Drum Simulator! out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including DvDrum, Ultimate Drum Simulator!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.8M–12.2M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like DvDrum, Ultimate Drum Simulator!

The middle of these games

≈ 9.8M–12.2M copies

≈ $70.9M–$99.3M after Steam's cut

from ~234k reviews

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

All 7 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (4 of 7) and Moddable (3 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry First-Person + Relaxing + Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2020, and none of them 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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