How much revenue did DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition make?

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition sell?

5.0M to 8.1M copies, based on its 79k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.0M–8.1M; from 79k 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 SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition and predicted how it would do from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.4M–37.7M

best case 39.5M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 7.4M–37.7M copies

≈ $85.5M–$873.5M after Steam's cut

from ~357k 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 5 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.1M–48.9M copies, ≈ $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 347k reviews in their first month; the range was 102k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Souls-like (5 of 5) and Action RPG (3 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 2 of the 5 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 38 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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Path of Exile 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $46.4M–$124.6M after Steam's cut $84.3M–$191.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	227k reviews Mostly Positive	Action RPGHack and Slash
ELDEN RING 2022	Est. copies ≈ 28.7M–46.6M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $473.6M–$1273.3M after Steam's cut $861.1M–$1959.0M before Steam's cut	$59.99	1.2M reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeOpen World
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition 2019	Est. copies ≈ 10.3M–16.7M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $169.4M–$455.5M after Steam's cut $308.0M–$700.8M before Steam's cut	$59.99	357k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Souls-likeDifficult
Black Myth: Wukong 2024	Est. copies ≈ 30.1M–48.9M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut $902.2M–$2052.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	1.2M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MythologyAction RPG
Dead Cells 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $38.4M–$103.2M after Steam's cut $69.8M–$158.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	184k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureAction Roguelike