D&D General All known sales of Dungeons & Dragons video games

[electricmastro]

After hearing how well Baldur's Gate 3 sold, I was curious to know what the overall sales are for all the games. I quickly came to realize that there is no overall tally of the sales, so I did the next best thing and researched the reported sales I could find for individual games and added them together:

1.) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain (1982) - 698,000

2.) Strategic Simulations' Dungeons & Dragons games (1988-1993) - 2 million

3.) Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft (1996) - 150,000

4.) Baldur's Gate (1998) - 2.8 million

5.) Planescape: Torment (1999) - 400,000

6.) Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000) - 2 million

7.) Icewind Dale I and II (2000-2002) - 580,000

8.) Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (2001) - 1 million

9.) Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001) - 150,000

10.) Neverwinter Nights (2002) - 2.2 million

11.) The Temple of Elemental Evil (2003) - 128,000

12.) Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (2012) - 1 million

13.) Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) - 15 million

So altogether, that would add up to 28,106,000 million copies. Surprisingly, I found many reports of sales for earlier games, but had a hard time finding reports of sales for many games after 2003, which incidentally may give a little bit of an idea as to how well those unreported games sold. If many later games selling less is truly the case, then I imagine the overall figure of all the games would be somewhere around the 35-40 million mark. If any of you happen to know of more data, I'd appreciate to see it.

Sources:

1.) Intellivision Lives! (1998)

2.) https://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1994&pub=2&id=117

3.) https://web.archive.org/web/20180618001634/https://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=696724

4.) https://www.newspapers.com/article/edmonton-journal/89325400/

5.) https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10604

6.) https://web.archive.org/web/20051106013711/http://www.bioware.com/bioware_info/about/

7.) https://web.archive.org/web/20121017165955/http://www.edge-online.com/features/top-100-pc-games-21st-century/

8.) https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/03/24/dark-alliance-ii-announced

9.) https://web.archive.org/web/20140811010123/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/91838/Acquisitions_Propel_Ubi_Soft_Sales_Up_72.php

10.) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-12-fi-games12-story.html

11.) https://web.archive.org/web/20050405233402/http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=9052

12.) https://www.newspapers.com/article/edmonton-journal/89325400/

13.) https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/dublin-firm-behind-baldurs-gate-game-posts-249m-profit-after-runaway-success/a2033961431.html

 

[Eyes of Nine]

So BG3 sold more than all the other games combined. Not really a surprise.

 

[electricmastro]

So BG3 sold more than all the other games combined. Not really a surprise.

And of course, there's the possibility that it could be inflated just to make the sales number look more appealing, since a Dungeons & Dragons video game had never sold that much before. But even just seeing the general popularity of Baldur's Gate and how the gaming landscape has embraced it, I'm willing to believe it's the best-selling one.

 

[gban007]

Shame not easy to see full sales of some of these games. Editing as sorry see you've got baldurs gate enhanced edition.does that includes BG2 enhanced edition? And all sales across all platforms?

 

[electricmastro]

Shame not easy to see full sales of some of these games. Editing as sorry see you've got baldurs gate enhanced edition.does that includes BG2 enhanced edition? And all sales across all platforms?

Interestingly, I could could a reported figure for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, but nothing solid for the second Enhanced Edition. There's some scattered speculation that it sold 420,000 copies on Steam, but no full reported figures.

The sales for the first Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition I got from this article. No mention of the second one though:

 

[Gorck]

There was also a Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II that was a lot like the first one except you callus play 2 player cooperative.

EDIT: Oops, I should have read the other replies first before posting.

 

[seebs]

1.) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain (1982) - 698,000

that is absolutely insane. i have seen sales estimates for the intellivision system from 3M-6M, so that would imply that >10% of owners, maybe >20%, bought a copy of this game.

To be fair it was a really fun game. But it had absolutely nothing to do with D&D except for the branding.

 

[Parmandur]

that is absolutely insane. i have seen sales estimates for the intellivision system from 3M-6M, so that would imply that >10% of owners, maybe >20%, bought a copy of this game.

To be fair it was a really fun game. But it had absolutely nothing to do with D&D except for the branding.

Well, that was at the height of both D&D popularity and Second Generation game sales, so it makes sense.

 

[Cap'n Kobold]

Dragonshard? - I'm sure there was an Eberron-themed D&D strategy game.

Also both D&D MMOs: Dungeons & Dragons Online and Neverwinter. (Although Neverwinter is free to play, so "sales" would be hard to track, even if player numbers are available.)

 

[electricmastro]

that is absolutely insane. i have seen sales estimates for the intellivision system from 3M-6M, so that would imply that >10% of owners, maybe >20%, bought a copy of this game.

To be fair it was a really fun game. But it had absolutely nothing to do with D&D except for the branding.

The figure from Intellivision Lives! on PC/Mac from 1998 is determined to have made it the 9th best-selling Intellivision game, which would mean it outsold other games like NBA Basketball and Tron: Deadly Discs: