How much revenue did DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince make?

$378k–$1.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince sell?

Q: How many copies did DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince sell?

34k to 56k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–56k; $378k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $688k–$1.6M before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly 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 DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 284k–1.3M

best case 2.9M (Persona 4 Golden)

Games like DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince

A typical game among these

≈ 284k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.7M–$17.7M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Persona 4 Golden at ≈ 2.2M–3.5M copies, ≈ $12.0M–$32.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 911 reviews in their first month; the range was 83 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (8 of 8) and Party-Based RPG (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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