How much revenue did Dust Courier make?

$143–$384 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dust Courier sell?

Q: How many copies did Dust Courier sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $143–$384 after Steam's cut $260–$590 before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 453k–3.0M

best case 5.5M (Frostpunk)

Games like Dust Courier

A typical game among these

≈ 453k–3.0M copies

≈ $1.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Dark Humor (3 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: Frostpunk at ≈ 4.2M–6.8M copies, ≈ $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dark Humor (3 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Survival, priced around $30.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 for the most recent game here to about 61 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
Graveyard Keeper 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.4M–$25.2M after Steam's cut $17.1M–$38.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	56k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsCrafting
Fallout Shelter 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.6M 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	83k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayBase-Building
60 Seconds! Reatomized 2019	Est. copies ≈ 566k–919k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	20k reviews Very Positive	2DChoose Your Own Adventure
60 Seconds! 2015	Est. copies ≈ 571k–927k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.8M before Steam's cut	$8.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based TacticsExploration
60 Parsecs! 2018	Est. copies ≈ 125k–203k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $343k–$923k after Steam's cut $624k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based StrategyText-Based
Frostpunk 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M 7.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut $62.8M–$142.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	138k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Survival
First Day 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	136 reviews Mixed	IndieSurvival
Despotism 3k 2018	Est. copies ≈ 117k–190k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $256k–$689k after Steam's cut $466k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$7.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyIndie