How much revenue did The Dragon Apprentice make?

$366–$991 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Dragon Apprentice sell?

Q: How many copies did The Dragon Apprentice sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $366–$991 after Steam's cut $666–$2k before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 The Dragon Apprentice and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Dragon Apprentice's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 335k–8.3M

best case 20.7M (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition)

Games like The Dragon Apprentice

A typical game among these

≈ 335k–8.3M copies

≈ $2.6M–$110.9M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition at ≈ 15.8M–25.6M copies, ≈ $173.2M–$465.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (7 of 8) and Dragons (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Fantasy, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 79 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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