How much revenue did Dungeons of Dredmor make?

$756k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dungeons of Dredmor sell?

Q: How many copies did Dungeons of Dredmor sell?

344k to 559k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 344k–559k; $756k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Dungeons of Dredmor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dungeons of Dredmor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 88k–466k

best case 1.2M (Stoneshard)

Games like Dungeons of Dredmor

A typical game among these

≈ 88k–466k copies

≈ $612k–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: Stoneshard at ≈ 886k–1.4M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 939 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (8 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Survival, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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).

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