How much revenue did Deep Rock Galactic make?

$77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deep Rock Galactic sell?

Q: How many copies did Deep Rock Galactic sell?

9.4M to 15.3M copies, based on its 380k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9.4M–15.3M; $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut $141.5M–$321.9M before Steam's cut; from 380k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Deep Rock Galactic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deep Rock Galactic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 669k–56.0M

best case 56.0M (Rust)

Games like Deep Rock Galactic

A typical game among these

≈ 669k–56.0M copies

≈ $27.9M–$493.4M after Steam's cut

from ~411k 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 Co-op (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: Rust at ≈ 42.7M–69.3M copies, ≈ $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 184 to 251k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Rust 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.3M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut $853.3M–$1941.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	1.4M reviews Very Positive	SurvivalCrafting
HELLDIVERS™ 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 28.9M–46.9M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut $577.5M–$1313.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	1.2M reviews Mostly Positive	Online Co-OpPvE
Warframe 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.9M–69.7M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	678k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayAction RPG
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $37.0M–$99.6M after Steam's cut $67.3M–$153.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	148k reviews Very Positive	Co-opDark Fantasy
PAYDAY 2 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.3M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $117.2M–$315.1M after Steam's cut $213.1M–$484.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	675k reviews Very Positive	Co-opAction
Age of Wonders 4 2023	Est. copies ≈ 571k–929k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.9M–$21.1M after Steam's cut $14.3M–$32.5M before Steam's cut	$49.99	23k reviews Very Positive	Strategy4X
Panzar 2013	Est. copies ≈ 326k–529k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayAction
First Dwarf 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $65k–$175k after Steam's cut $118k–$269k before Steam's cut	$24.99	381 reviews Mostly Positive	Early Access3D