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

$15k–$39k 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?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 84 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $15k–$39k after Steam's cut $27k–$60k before Steam's cut; from 84 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) 73k–601k

best case 4.4M (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009))

Games like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

A typical game among these

≈ 73k–601k copies

≈ $386k–$3.2M 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: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009) at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $13.8M–$37.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (8 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Fantasy, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2025, 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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