How much revenue did Dummynation make?

$266k–$715k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dummynation sell?

Q: How many copies did Dummynation sell?

81k to 131k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 81k–131k; $266k–$715k after Steam's cut $483k–$1.1M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Dummynation out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dummynation's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–10.9M

best case 20.5M (Hearts of Iron IV)

Games like Dummynation

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–10.9M copies

≈ $16.5M–$211.0M after Steam's cut

from ~60k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Hearts of Iron IV at ≈ 15.6M–25.4M copies, ≈ $215.0M–$578.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Grand Strategy (8 of 8) and Historical (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with World War II + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, and 1 of your 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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Victoria II 2010	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.0M–$18.7M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.8M before the cut	$19.99	20k reviews Very Positive	Grand StrategyStrategy
Europa Universalis IV 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.7M–14.1M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $119.3M–$320.8M after Steam's cut $216.9M–$493.5M before the cut	$49.99	137k reviews Very Positive	Grand StrategyStrategy
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Hearts of Iron IV 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.6M–25.4M 6.2x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $215.0M–$578.2M after Steam's cut $391.0M–$889.5M before the cut	$49.99	376k reviews Very Positive	StrategyWorld War II
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ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV 2020	Est. copies ≈ 395k–643k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.5M–$17.5M after Steam's cut $11.9M–$27.0M before the cut	$59.99	16k reviews Mixed	Turn-Based TacticsWargame
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