How many copies did AdventureQuest 3D sell?

241k to 392k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did AdventureQuest 3D make?

AdventureQuest 3D is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is AdventureQuest 3D?

Estimated owners: ≈ 241k–392k; from 10k 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 AdventureQuest 3D out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AdventureQuest 3D's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 131k–1.4M

best case 20.6M (Monster Hunter: World)

Games like AdventureQuest 3D

The middle of these games

≈ 131k–1.4M copies

≈ $28.7M–$142.8M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Open World (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 529 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (4 of 8) and MMORPG (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Open World, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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