How much revenue did Die in the Dungeon make?

$368k–$990k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Die in the Dungeon sell?

Q: How many copies did Die in the Dungeon sell?

89k to 145k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 89k–145k; $368k–$990k after Steam's cut $669k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Very Positive)

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 Die in the Dungeon and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Die in the Dungeon's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 127k–337k

best case 525k (Gloomhaven)

Games like Die in the Dungeon

A typical game among these

≈ 127k–337k copies

≈ $897k–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Card Game (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: Gloomhaven at ≈ 400k–650k copies, ≈ $3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (3 of 8) and Rogue-like (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark Fantasy + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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Dead Age 2016	Est. copies ≈ 233k–379k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $962k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$4.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	6k reviews Very Positive	RPGZombies
Across the Obelisk 2022	Est. copies ≈ 326k–529k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Rogue-likeStrategy
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Gloomhaven 2021	Est. copies ≈ 400k–650k 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	16k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpDark Fantasy
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NEOVERSE 2020	Est. copies ≈ 94k–152k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $515k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $935k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Card BattlerDeckbuilding
Trials of Fire 2021	Est. copies ≈ 81k–131k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $445k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $809k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Card BattlerTurn-Based Tactics