How much revenue did DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS make?

$898k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS sell?

Q: How many copies did DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS sell?

163k to 265k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 163k–265k; $898k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut; from 7k reviews (Mixed)

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 DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14.3M–18.0M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS

A typical game among these

≈ 14.3M–18.0M copies

≈ $104.6M–$272.4M after Steam's cut

from ~405k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and Survival (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Mature + Utilities + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2026, and 1 of the 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 52 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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No Man's Sky 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17.5M–28.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut $526.0M–$1196.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	422k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldOpen World Survival Craft
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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 6.9x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter