How much revenue did DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ II make?

$456k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ II sell?

Q: How many copies did DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ II sell?

28k to 45k copies, based on its 803 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–45k; $456k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $829k–$1.9M before the cut; from 803 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 DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ II out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ II's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 145k–245k

best case 593k (Persona® 5 Strikers)

Games like DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ II

The middle of these games

≈ 145k–245k copies

≈ $1.2M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Persona® 5 Strikers at ≈ 452k–734k copies, ≈ $7.5M–$20.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (8 of 8) and Hack and Slash (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Hack and Slash, priced around $60.
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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