How much revenue did Black Dragon Mage make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Black Dragon Mage sell?

Q: How many copies did Black Dragon Mage sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 183 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before the cut; from 183 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Black Dragon Mage out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Black Dragon Mage's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–373k

best case 3.5M (Hero Siege)

Games like Black Dragon Mage

The middle of these games

≈ 32k–373k copies

≈ $105k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hero Siege at ≈ 2.7M–4.3M copies, ≈ $5.8M–$15.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 682 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 331 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Action RPG (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $8.
The era: 6 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 70 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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