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.) Gold Box series (1988-1993) - 2 million

3.) Eye of the Beholder series (1991-1993) - 350,000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11.) Neverwinter Nights (2002) - 2.2 million

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

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

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

So altogether, that would add up to 28,456,000 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.) CGW Museum - Galleries

3.) SSI: CORPORATE BACKGROUND

4.) TAKE TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE INC (Form: 10KSB, Received: 02/06/1998 16:08:16)

5.) Article clipped from Edmonton Journal

6.) RPG Codex Report: A Codexian Visit to inXile Entertainment :: rpg codex > doesn't scale to your level

7.) BioWare: About Bioware

8.) The Top 100 PC Games of the 21st Century | Features | Edge Online

9.) Dark Alliance II Announced - IGN

10.) Acquisitions Propel Ubi Soft Sales Up 72%

11.) EA buys strength in new genres

12.) Troika Games Officially Closed

13.) Article clipped from Edmonton Journal

14.) Dublin firm behind Baldur’s Gate game posts €249m profit after runaway success

 

[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: