How much revenue did Deep Rock Galactic make?

$77.6M–$208.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deep Rock Galactic sell?

Q: How many copies did Deep Rock Galactic sell?

9.4M to 15.3M copies, based on its 379k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9.4M–15.3M; $77.6M–$208.6M after Steam's cut $141.1M–$321.0M before the cut; from 379k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Deep Rock Galactic out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deep Rock Galactic's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 667k–55.7M

best case 55.6M (Rust)

Games like Deep Rock Galactic

The middle of these games

≈ 667k–55.7M copies

≈ $27.9M–$491.0M after Steam's cut

from ~411k 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 Co-op (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: Rust at ≈ 42.4M–68.9M copies, ≈ $466.2M–$1253.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 184 to 251k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Rust 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42.4M–68.9M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $466.2M–$1253.5M after Steam's cut $847.6M–$1928.4M before the cut	$39.99	1.4M reviews Very Positive	SurvivalCrafting
HELLDIVERS™ 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 28.7M–46.7M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $315.9M–$849.4M after Steam's cut $574.4M–$1306.8M before the cut	$39.99	1.2M reviews Mostly Positive	Online Co-OpPvE
Warframe 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.4M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	676k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayAction RPG
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.9M–$99.3M after Steam's cut $67.2M–$152.8M before the cut	$29.99	147k reviews Very Positive	Co-opDark Fantasy
PAYDAY 2 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.6M–69.2M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $117.1M–$314.7M after Steam's cut $212.8M–$484.2M before the cut	$9.99	674k reviews Very Positive	Co-opAction
Age of Wonders 4 2023	Est. copies ≈ 569k–925k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut $14.2M–$32.4M before the cut	$49.99	23k reviews Very Positive	Strategy4X
Panzar 2013	Est. copies ≈ 326k–530k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayAction
First Dwarf 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $64k–$173k after Steam's cut $117k–$266k before the cut	$24.99	378 reviews Mostly Positive	Early Access3D