How much revenue did Desert Magic Adventures make?

$68–$183 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Desert Magic Adventures sell?

Q: How many copies did Desert Magic Adventures sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $68–$183 after Steam's cut $123–$281 before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 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 Desert Magic Adventures and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Desert Magic Adventures's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.3M–5.7M

best case 12.4M (Deep Rock Galactic)

Games like Desert Magic Adventures

A typical game among these

≈ 3.3M–5.7M copies

≈ $20.4M–$48.4M after Steam's cut

from ~97k 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: Deep Rock Galactic at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 24k reviews in their first month; the range was 15k to 63k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Co-op, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2022, and none of them 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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