How much revenue did DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition make?

$719k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition sell?

65k to 106k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 65k–106k; $719k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mixed)

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 QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 592k–1.9M

best case 6.9M (NieR:Automata™)

Games like DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 592k–1.9M copies

≈ $15.1M–$41.3M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: NieR:Automata™ at ≈ 5.3M–8.6M copies, ≈ $57.9M–$155.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (7 of 8) and JRPG (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Female Protagonist, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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