How much revenue did Down the Drain make?

$478–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Down the Drain sell?

Q: How many copies did Down the Drain sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $478–$1k after Steam's cut $869–$2k before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 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 Down the Drain and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Down the Drain's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 72k–615k

best case 4.0M (Hades II)

Games like Down the Drain

A typical game among these

≈ 72k–615k copies

≈ $600k–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hades II at ≈ 3.1M–5.0M copies, ≈ $25.3M–$68.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 780 reviews in their first month; the range was 273 to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and Action Roguelike (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Rogue-lite, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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