How much revenue did DubWars make?

$33k–$89k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DubWars sell?

Q: How many copies did DubWars sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 290 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $33k–$89k after Steam's cut $60k–$137k before Steam's cut; from 290 reviews (Mostly 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 DubWars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DubWars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 848k–3.9M

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like DubWars

A typical game among these

≈ 848k–3.9M copies

≈ $4.5M–$16.9M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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: 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 37 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Music (8 of 8) and Rhythm (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2023, 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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