How much revenue did DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours make?

$551k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours sell?

Q: How many copies did DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours sell?

40k to 65k copies, based on its 821 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 40k–65k; $551k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before Steam's cut; from 821 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 DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 492k–1.3M

best case 3.9M (Broforce)

Games like DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours

A typical game among these

≈ 492k–1.3M copies

≈ $3.0M–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Arcade (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Broforce at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $12.3M–$33.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (3 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with America + Co-op, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, 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 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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