Steam tag
Estimated revenue, market economics, and the top games tagged Souls-like on Steam.
For developers
Total estimated revenue of Souls-like games, grouped by the year they launched — a release-cohort trend, not a live time-series. Recent years are still accumulating revenue after launch.
Leaderboard
| # | Game | Est. revenue | Reviews | Score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ELDEN RING | $973.5M | 824K | 93% | $59.99 |
| 2 | Black Myth: Wukong | $794.8M | 1.2M | 97% | $59.99 |
| 3 | DARK SOULS™ III | $467M | 437.9K | 94% | $59.99 |
| 4 |
| Year | Releases | Median rev | $100k+ | $1M+ | Total genre revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 17 | $1.2M | 94% | 53% | $366.5M |
| 2025 | 36 | $1.7M | 92% | 61% | $826.5M |
| 2024 | 37 | $1.1M | 86% | 54% | $1.2B |
| 2023 | 31 | $1.7M | 84% | 55% | $503.2M |
| 2022 | 25 | $1.1M | 92% | 52% | $1.2B |
| 2021 | 28 | $587.2K | 86% | 36% | $97.8M |
| 2020 | 13 | $803.5K | 77% | 46% | $95.2M |
| 2019 | 16 | $1M | 88% | 50% | $472.6M |
| 2018 | 12 | $1.7M | 83% | 50% | $319.7M |
| 2017 | 5 | $15.7M | 100% | 80% | $187.7M |
| 2016 | 9 | $3.3M | 78% | 78% | $500M |
| 2015 | 4 | $9.7M | 100% | 100% | $115.4M |
Median beats average here: genre revenue is hit-driven, so the median shows what the typical Souls-like launch actually earned. Recent years accumulate revenue for a while after launch.
| Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition |
| $305.9M |
| 352.2K |
| 95% |
| $59.99 |
| 5 | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | $243.3M | 273.1K | 95% | $49.99 |
| 6 | Crimson Desert | $235M | 164.4K | 84% | $69.99 |
| 7 | God of War | $146.5M | 128.1K | 96% | $49.99 |
| 8 | STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ | $141.7M | 78.6K | 71% | $69.99 |
| 9 | Hollow Knight: Silksong | $134.4M | 415.1K | 89% | $19.99 |
| 10 | Monster Hunter: World | $130.6M | 314.6K | 89% | $29.99 |
| 11 | ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN | $122.1M | 127.6K | 83% | $39.99 |
| 12 | Path of Exile 2 | $116.4M | 165.1K | 76% | $29.99 |
| 13 | WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers | $102M | 103.8K | 56% | $49.99 |
| 14 | Hollow Knight | $99.9M | 552.5K | 97% | $14.99 |
| 15 | Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT | $98.7M | 63K | 94% | $59.99 |
| 16 | DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin | $93M | 130.6K | 84% | $39.99 |
| 17 | Lies of P | $89.2M | 57K | 92% | $59.99 |
| 18 | STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ | $88.6M | 152.5K | 88% | $39.99 |
| 19 | ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ | $87.6M | 84.9K | 92% | $59.99 |
| 20 | Hades II | $78.5M | 112.3K | 96% | $29.99 |
| 21 | Ori and the Will of the Wisps | $77.7M | 135.2K | 97% | $29.99 |
| 22 | PRAGMATA | $68.4M | 50.3K | 97% | $59.99 |
| 23 | DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED | $67M | 98.9K | 92% | $39.99 |
| 24 | REMNANT II® | $64.4M | 45.7K | 83% | $49.99 |
| 25 | Cuphead | $62.3M | 217K | 96% | $19.99 |
| 26 | Dead Cells | $61.3M | 154.9K | 97% | $24.99 |
| 27 | No Rest for the Wicked | $55.4M | 79.8K | 80% | $39.99 |
| 28 | God of War Ragnarök | $52.6M | 31.3K | 89% | $59.99 |
| 29 | LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga | $48.3M | 48.2K | 90% | $49.99 |
| 30 | The First Berserker: Khazan | $43.1M | 31.4K | 85% | $59.99 |
| 31 | Wallpaper Engine | $42.3M | 1M | 98% | $4.99 |
| 32 | Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition | $39M | 50.3K | 87% | $49.99 |
| 33 | Remnant: From the Ashes | $34M | 46.9K | 85% | $39.99 |
| 34 | Nioh 3 | $31.9M | 18.5K | 79% | $69.99 |
| 35 | DARK SOULS™ II | $29.4M | 33.1K | 87% | $39.99 |
| 36 | DiRT Rally 2.0 | $26.2M | 48.2K | 89% | $19.99 |
| 37 | Lords of the Fallen | $25.5M | 54.3K | 68% | $29.99 |
| 38 | Nine Sols | $24.7M | 43.7K | 94% | $29.99 |
| 39 | Outward Definitive Edition | $22.8M | 31.2K | 73% | $39.99 |
| 40 | SILENT HILL f | $21.8M | 28K | 80% | $34.99 |
| 41 | Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty | $21.2M | 29.1K | 50% | $39.99 |
| 42 | Sifu | $20.4M | 28K | 92% | $39.99 |
| 43 | ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights | $18.6M | 45.2K | 94% | $24.99 |
| 44 | WILD HEARTS™ | $18.3M | 13K | 47% | $69.99 |
| 45 | Avowed | $15.7M | 12.8K | 77% | $49.99 |
| 46 | Rain World | $15.7M | 55K | 94% | $11.24 |
| 47 | BIOMUTANT | $14.2M | 20.1K | 66% | $39.99 |
| 48 | Darksiders III | $13.7M | 17.3K | 76% | $39.99 |
| 49 | Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition | $13.6M | 20.5K | 79% | $29.99 |
| 50 | Rise of the Ronin | $13.1M | 10.7K | 63% | $49.99 |