How many copies did AdventureQuest 3D sell?

242k to 393k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did AdventureQuest 3D make?

AdventureQuest 3D is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is AdventureQuest 3D?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 242k–393k; from 10k 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 AdventureQuest 3D and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AdventureQuest 3D's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 131k–1.5M

best case 20.7M (Monster Hunter: World)

Games like AdventureQuest 3D

A typical game among these

≈ 131k–1.5M copies

≈ $31.6M–$144.5M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (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: 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 529 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (4 of 8) and MMORPG (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Open World, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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Tree of Savior (English Ver.) 2016	Est. copies ≈ 853k–1.4M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	20k reviews Mixed	MMORPGAnime
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