How much revenue did DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires make?

$1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires sell?

Q: How many copies did DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires sell?

82k to 133k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 82k–133k; $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 35k–87k

best case 224k (WARRIORS OROCHI 4)

Games like DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires

A typical game among these

≈ 35k–87k copies

≈ $822k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: WARRIORS OROCHI 4 at ≈ 171k–277k copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 531 reviews in their first month; the range was 163 to 766.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (8 of 8) and Musou (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hack and Slash + Musou, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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