How much revenue did DigDigDrill make?

$17k–$46k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DigDigDrill sell?

Q: How many copies did DigDigDrill sell?

16k to 25k copies, based on its 628 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–25k; $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$71k before Steam's cut; from 628 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 DigDigDrill and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DigDigDrill's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 160–204

best case 29k (Super Mining Mechs)

Games like DigDigDrill

A typical game among these

≈ 160–204 copies

≈ $231–$516 after Steam's cut

from ~6 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Super Mining Mechs at ≈ 22k–36k copies, ≈ $31k–$82k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 327 reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (7 of 8) and Mining (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Trains + Mining, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Mechs + Character Customization; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 36 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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