How many copies did Dropzone sell?

30k to 49k copies, based on its 871 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Dropzone make?

Dropzone is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Dropzone?

Estimated owners: ≈ 30k–49k; from 871 reviews (Mostly 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 Dropzone out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dropzone's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–4.5M

best case 13.8M (Paladins®)

Games like Dropzone

The middle of these games

≈ 2.3M–4.5M copies

≈ $17.2M after Steam's cut

from ~68k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is MOBA (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: Paladins® at ≈ 10.5M–17.1M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on MOBA (4 of 8) and Survival (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hero Shooter + FPS.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Paladins® 2018	Est. copies ≈ 10.5M–17.1M 5.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	345k reviews Very Positive	Hero ShooterFree to Play
SMITE® 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.5M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	120k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMOBA
Dota Underlords 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	91k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStrategy
Minion Masters 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	65k reviews Very Positive	PvETrading Card Game
Eternal Return 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	70k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayAnime
Battlerite 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	59k reviews Very Positive	PvPMultiplayer
Awesomenauts 2012	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $9.3M–$25.1M after Steam's cut $17.0M–$38.6M before the cut	$19.99	27k reviews Very Positive	MOBAMultiplayer
Dungeon Defenders II 2017	Est. copies ≈ 762k–1.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	22k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerOnline Co-Op