How many copies did Dropzone sell?

30k to 49k copies, based on its 872 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Dropzone make?

Dropzone is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Dropzone?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 30k–49k; from 872 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 Dropzone and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dropzone's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–4.5M

best case 13.8M (Paladins®)

Games like Dropzone

A typical game among these

≈ 2.3M–4.5M copies

≈ $17.2M after Steam's cut

from ~67k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is MOBA (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: Paladins® at ≈ 10.5M–17.1M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share MOBA (4 of 8) and Survival (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hero Shooter + FPS.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Paladins® 2018	Est. copies ≈ 10.5M–17.1M 5.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	345k reviews Very Positive	Hero ShooterFree to Play
SMITE® 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.5M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	120k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMOBA
Dota Underlords 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	91k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStrategy
Minion Masters 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	65k reviews Very Positive	PvETrading Card Game
Eternal Return 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	69k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayAnime
Battlerite 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	59k reviews Very Positive	PvPMultiplayer
Awesomenauts 2012	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $9.3M–$25.1M after Steam's cut $17.0M–$38.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	27k reviews Very Positive	MOBAMultiplayer
Dungeon Defenders II 2017	Est. copies ≈ 763k–1.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	22k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerOnline Co-Op