How much revenue did The Dope Game make?

$12k–$33k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Dope Game sell?

Q: How many copies did The Dope Game sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 215 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $12k–$33k after Steam's cut $22k–$51k before the cut; from 215 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 The Dope Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Dope Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 231k–648k

best case 10.2M (Schedule I)

Games like The Dope Game

The middle of these games

≈ 231k–648k copies

≈ $3.3M–$5.3M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Schedule I at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $42.9M–$115.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Multiplayer + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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 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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