How much revenue did Dragon Ruins make?

$13k–$35k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dragon Ruins sell?

Q: How many copies did Dragon Ruins sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 378 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before Steam's cut; from 378 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 Ruins and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dragon Ruins's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 944–30k

best case 757k (Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition)

Games like Dragon Ruins

A typical game among these

≈ 944–30k copies

≈ $21k–$85k after Steam's cut

from ~123 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition at ≈ 577k–937k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 104 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 Auto Battler (5 of 8) and Action RPG (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, 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 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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Final Knight 2025	Est. copies ≈ 6k–9k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before Steam's cut	$13.99	222 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessRPG
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Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition 2014	Est. copies ≈ 577k–937k 84x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Co-op Dungeon Crawler
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