How much revenue did Darkzone: Idle RPG make?

Darkzone: Idle RPG is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Darkzone: Idle RPG sell?

Q: How many copies did Darkzone: Idle RPG sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 133 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; from 133 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 Darkzone: Idle RPG and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkzone: Idle RPG's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 277k–597k

best case 972k (IdleOn - The Incremental MMO)

Games like Darkzone: Idle RPG

A typical game among these

≈ 277k–597k copies

≈ $1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: IdleOn - The Incremental MMO at ≈ 741k–1.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 114 to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (7 of 8) and Idler (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + MMORPG.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 2 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 38 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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