How much revenue did Dwelvers make?

$33k–$88k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dwelvers sell?

Q: How many copies did Dwelvers sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 319 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $33k–$88k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before Steam's cut; from 319 reviews (Mixed)

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 Dwelvers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dwelvers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 239k–476k

best case 846k (Dungeons 3)

Games like Dwelvers

A typical game among these

≈ 239k–476k copies

≈ $1.3M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Dungeons 3 at ≈ 644k–1.0M copies, ≈ $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Villain Protagonist (7 of 8) and Base-Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Villain Protagonist + Base-Building, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, and 2 of the 8 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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Mr. Prepper 2021	Est. copies ≈ 136k–221k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $747k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	Survival Simulation
Dungeons 3 2017	Est. copies ≈ 644k–1.0M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	19k reviews Very Positive	StrategyVillain Protagonist
Dungeons 2 2015	Est. copies ≈ 258k–419k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	StrategyManagement
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