How much revenue did Overlord™: Raising Hell make?

$452k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Overlord™: Raising Hell sell?

Q: How many copies did Overlord™: Raising Hell sell?

165k to 268k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 165k–268k; $452k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $823k–$1.9M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Overlord™: Raising Hell and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Overlord™: Raising Hell's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–451k

best case 24.1M (DARK SOULS™ III)

Games like Overlord™: Raising Hell

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–451k copies

≈ $82k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Dark Fantasy (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: DARK SOULS™ III at ≈ 18.3M–29.8M copies, ≈ $302.7M–$813.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 118 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 558.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dark Fantasy (4 of 8) and Third Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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
DARK SOULS™ III 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18.3M–29.8M 318x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $302.7M–$813.9M after Steam's cut $550.4M–$1252.2M before Steam's cut	$59.99	441k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Overlord™ 2007	Est. copies ≈ 427k–693k 4.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $585k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut	$4.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Villain ProtagonistHack and Slash
Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain 2013	Est. copies ≈ 78k–127k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $150k–$403k after Steam's cut $273k–$621k before Steam's cut	$6.99	1k reviews Mixed	ActionVampire
Undead Horde 2: Necropolis 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $58k–$156k after Steam's cut $105k–$240k before Steam's cut	$16.99	500 reviews Very Positive	ActionAdventure
Overlord II 2009	Est. copies ≈ 315k–513k 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $867k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	5k reviews Very Positive	RPGVillain Protagonist
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ 2023	Est. copies ≈ 38k–62k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $526k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $956k–$2.2M before Steam's cut	$49.99	2k reviews Mixed	AdventureFantasy
Darkness Reborn 2022	Est. copies ≈ 74–121 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $41–$110 after Steam's cut $74–$169 before Steam's cut	$1.99	3 reviews 3 user reviews	RPGVillain Protagonist
Heartless & Dreadful : Return by 72 Hours 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut	$6.99	65 reviews Very Positive	Character Action GameSpectacle fighter