How much revenue did DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED make?

$51.7M–$139.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED sell?

Q: How many copies did DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED sell?

4.7M to 7.6M copies, based on its 155k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.7M–7.6M; $51.7M–$139.1M after Steam's cut $94.0M–$213.9M before the cut; from 155k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11.0M–19.9M

best case 37.5M (ELDEN RING)

Games like DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED

The middle of these games

≈ 11.0M–19.9M copies

≈ $110.1M–$257.6M after Steam's cut

from ~318k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Fantasy (3 of 6), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: ELDEN RING at ≈ 28.6M–46.4M copies, ≈ $471.3M–$1267.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 268k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 129k to 347k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fantasy (3 of 6) and Open World (3 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Choices Matter, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry RPG + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 79 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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