How much revenue did DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS make?

$155k–$416k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS sell?

Q: How many copies did DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS sell?

20k to 33k copies, based on its 810 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–33k; $155k–$416k after Steam's cut $281k–$640k before Steam's cut; from 810 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 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–4.7M

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–4.7M copies

≈ $6k–$52.5M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Character Customization (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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 99 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 20k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Character Customization (4 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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