How much revenue did Dwarrows make?

$27k–$73k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dwarrows sell?

Q: How many copies did Dwarrows sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 133 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$113k before Steam's cut; from 133 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 Dwarrows and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Dwarrows's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 625–1k

best case 104k (Game of Thrones Winter is Coming)

Games like Dwarrows

A typical game among these

≈ 625–1k copies

≈ $699–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~27 reviews

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

1 of the 7 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Game of Thrones Winter is Coming at ≈ 80k–129k copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 35.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (7 of 7) and Simulation (4 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Fantasy. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Massively Multiplayer + RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 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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