How much revenue did DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition make?

$721k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition sell?

66k to 107k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 66k–107k; $721k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 596k–2.0M

best case 6.9M (NieR:Automata™)

Games like DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ Slime Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 596k–2.0M copies

≈ $17.4M–$41.6M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: NieR:Automata™ at ≈ 5.3M–8.6M copies, ≈ $58.2M–$156.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (7 of 8) and JRPG (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Female Protagonist, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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