How much revenue did Dragon Age™: The Veilguard make?

$18.5M–$49.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dragon Age™: The Veilguard sell?

Q: How many copies did Dragon Age™: The Veilguard sell?

1.1M to 1.8M copies, based on its 45k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.8M; $18.5M–$49.6M after Steam's cut $33.6M–$76.3M before Steam's cut; from 45k 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 Dragon Age™: The Veilguard and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dragon Age™: The Veilguard's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–2.2M

best case 2.3M (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered)

Games like Dragon Age™: The Veilguard

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–2.2M copies

≈ $24.0M–$39.0M after Steam's cut

from ~67k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Fantasy (3 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: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $24.0M–$64.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 48k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (3 of 8) and LGBTQ+ (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Fantasy, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 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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