How much revenue did Steelrising make?

$3.0M–$8.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Steelrising sell?

Q: How many copies did Steelrising sell?

184k to 300k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 184k–300k; $3.0M–$8.2M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.6M before Steam's cut; from 7k reviews (Mostly 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 Steelrising and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steelrising's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.4M–27.5M

best case 39.5M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Steelrising

A typical game among these

≈ 5.4M–27.5M copies

≈ $79.6M–$715.9M after Steam's cut

from ~145k 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.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.1M–48.9M copies, ≈ $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 347k reviews in their first month; the range was 12k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Souls-like (8 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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 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™ II: Scholar of the First Sin 2015	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $71.3M–$191.8M after Steam's cut $129.7M–$295.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	133k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.8M–7.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $52.3M–$140.6M after Steam's cut $95.1M–$216.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	156k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Black Myth: Wukong 2024	Est. copies ≈ 30.1M–48.9M 8.4x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut $902.2M–$2052.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	1.2M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MythologyAction RPG
ELDEN RING 2022	Est. copies ≈ 28.7M–46.6M 8.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $473.6M–$1273.3M after Steam's cut $861.1M–$1959.0M before Steam's cut	$59.99	1.2M reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeOpen World
Lies of P 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $34.0M–$91.5M after Steam's cut $61.9M–$140.7M before Steam's cut	$59.99	83k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeAction
DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition 2012	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	79k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeRPG
CODE VEIN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.8M–$80.0M after Steam's cut $54.1M–$123.1M before Steam's cut	$59.99	63k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeAnime
DARK SOULS™ III 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18.3M–29.8M 3.0x 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