How much revenue did The Dwarves make?

$958k–$2.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Dwarves sell?

Q: How many copies did The Dwarves sell?

87k to 142k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 87k–142k; $958k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$4.0M before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 The Dwarves and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Dwarves's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 991k–1.3M

best case 5.9M (Warhammer: Vermintide 2)

Games like The Dwarves

A typical game among these

≈ 991k–1.3M copies

≈ $11.5M–$15.6M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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 Fantasy (4 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: Warhammer: Vermintide 2 at ≈ 4.5M–7.3M copies, ≈ $37.0M–$99.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (4 of 8) and Games Workshop (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Games Workshop, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Games Workshop + Multiplayer + Hack and Slash; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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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