How much revenue did DINO MERCS make?

$715–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DINO MERCS sell?

Q: How many copies did DINO MERCS sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $715–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 15 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 DINO MERCS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DINO MERCS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 228k–823k

best case 1.2M (Loop Hero)

Games like DINO MERCS

A typical game among these

≈ 228k–823k copies

≈ $2.0M–$6.3M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Loop Hero at ≈ 907k–1.5M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (5 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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