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How many copies did Devil May Cry 5 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4.9M–7.9M
$40.3M–$108.3M after Steam's cut $73.3M–$166.7M before the cut
from 170k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Devil May Cry 5 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Devil May Cry 5's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.9M–7.3M
best case 20.6M (Monster Hunter: World)
Games like Devil May Cry 5

The middle of these games

≈ 6.9M–7.3M copies

≈ $70.5M–$101.7M after Steam's cut

from ~140k 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 Hack and Slash (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: Monster Hunter: World at ≈ 15.7M–25.5M copies, ≈ $129.4M–$347.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Action; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2020, 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).

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≈ 7.6M–12.4M
2.2x vs typical
SteamSpy 5M–10M
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≈ 5.6M–9.0M
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≈ 5.3M–8.6M
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≈ 15.7M–25.5M
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$29.99
516k reviews
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