How much revenue did Dark Quest 2 make?

$50k–$134k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark Quest 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark Quest 2 sell?

20k to 33k copies, based on its 663 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–33k; $50k–$134k after Steam's cut $91k–$206k before the cut; from 663 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 Quest 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark Quest 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 72k–142k

best case 179k (Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager)

Games like Dark Quest 2

The middle of these games

≈ 72k–142k copies

≈ $391k–$880k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager at ≈ 136k–221k copies, ≈ $748k–$2.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Board Game (5 of 8) and Turn-Based (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Villain Protagonist, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 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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