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How many copies did The Light Remake sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 38k–62k
$53k–$141k after Steam's cut $95k–$217k before the cut
from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Light Remake out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Light Remake's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–7.1M
best case 12.1M (DOOM)
Games like The Light Remake

The middle of these games

≈ 2.6M–7.1M copies

≈ $26.9M–$60.6M after Steam's cut

from ~48k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: DOOM at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $50.6M–$136.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on First-Person (6 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Gore, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2017, 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 43 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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