How much revenue did Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name make?

$4.3M–$11.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name sell?

Q: How many copies did Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name sell?

316k to 514k copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 316k–514k; $4.3M–$11.7M after Steam's cut $7.9M–$18.0M before Steam's cut; from 13k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name and predicted how it would do from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31.8M–52.1M

best case 39.5M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name

A typical game among these

≈ 31.8M–52.1M copies

≈ $558.3M–$915.2M after Steam's cut

from ~788k 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 6 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (3 of 6), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (3 of 6) and Story Rich (3 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of the 6 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Black Myth: Wukong 2024	Est. copies ≈ 30.1M–48.9M 1.5x 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
Warframe 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.9M–69.7M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	678k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayAction RPG
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered 2015	Est. copies ≈ 43.8M–71.2M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $602.5M–$1620.0M after Steam's cut $1095.5M–$2492.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	898k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open WorldRPG
Dying Light 2015	Est. copies ≈ 24.2M–39.3M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut $302.5M–$688.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	496k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
Cyberpunk 2077 2020	Est. copies ≈ 24.4M–39.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $402.0M–$1080.8M after Steam's cut $730.9M–$1662.7M before Steam's cut	$59.99	983k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkOpen World
DARK SOULS™ III 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18.3M–29.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $302.7M–$813.9M after Steam's cut $550.4M–$1252.2M before Steam's cut	$59.99	441k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy