How much revenue did Dark Messiah of Might & Magic make?

$2.1M–$5.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark Messiah of Might & Magic sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark Messiah of Might & Magic sell?

749k to 1.2M copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 749k–1.2M; $2.1M–$5.5M after Steam's cut $3.7M–$8.5M before Steam's cut; from 12k 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 Dark Messiah of Might & Magic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark Messiah of Might & Magic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 81k–225k

best case 2.0M (Blade and Sorcery)

Games like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

A typical game among these

≈ 81k–225k copies

≈ $504k–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Blade and Sorcery at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $12.7M–$34.2M 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 292 to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Swordplay (7 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Swordplay, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2024, and 1 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 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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Blade and Sorcery 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M 19x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.7M–$34.2M after Steam's cut $23.1M–$52.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	62k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	VRSwordplay
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