How much revenue did Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen make?

$16.9M–$45.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen sell?

Q: How many copies did Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen sell?

2.0M to 3.3M copies, based on its 49k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.0M–3.3M; $16.9M–$45.4M after Steam's cut $30.7M–$69.8M before Steam's cut; from 49k 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's Dogma: Dark Arisen and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.1M–20.7M

best case 20.7M (Monster Hunter: World)

Games like Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

A typical game among these

≈ 9.1M–20.7M copies

≈ $111.7M–$261.1M after Steam's cut

from ~325k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Monster Hunter: World at ≈ 15.8M–25.6M copies, ≈ $129.9M–$349.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 171k reviews in their first month; the range was 145k to 183k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (7 of 8) and Character Customization (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Open World, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, 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 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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