How much revenue did DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 Empires make?

$798k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 Empires sell?

Q: How many copies did DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 Empires sell?

48k to 79k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 48k–79k; $798k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 Empires and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 Empires's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 204k–423k

best case 574k (Myth of Empires)

Games like DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 Empires

A typical game among these

≈ 204k–423k copies

≈ $3.4M–$5.6M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Simulation (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: Myth of Empires at ≈ 437k–710k copies, ≈ $3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 658 reviews in their first month; the range was 59 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (4 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Building + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 3 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 43 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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Myth of Empires 2024	Est. copies ≈ 437k–710k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$14.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	18k reviews Mixed	BuildingOpen World Survival Craft
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