How many copies did DC Universe™ Online sell?

1.4M to 2.3M copies, based on its 22k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did DC Universe™ Online make?

DC Universe™ Online is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is DC Universe™ Online?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 1.4M–2.3M; from 22k 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 DC Universe™ Online and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DC Universe™ Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 280k–27.6M

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like DC Universe™ Online

A typical game among these

≈ 280k–27.6M copies

≈ $109.7M–$172.3M after Steam's cut

from ~260k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is MMORPG (4 of 8), 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share MMORPG (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2022, and none of them 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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ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.8M–43.5M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut $200.7M–$456.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	779k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 31.0M–50.3M 3.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut $77.3M–$175.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
MilMo 2018	Est. copies ≈ 21k–34k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	692 reviews Mostly Positive	Free to Play3D Platformer
Champions Online 2011	Est. copies ≈ 277k–451k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mostly Positive	MMORPGSuperhero
Path of Exile 2013	Est. copies ≈ 15.8M–25.7M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	250k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayDark Fantasy
Destiny 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 19.1M–31.0M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	663k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayOpen World
VRChat 2017	Est. copies ≈ 9.3M–15.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	269k reviews Mostly Positive	VRFree to Play
Galaxy City® 2022	Est. copies ≈ 670–1k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	27 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessAction