How much revenue did Dark Light make?

$87k–$233k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark Light sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark Light sell?

19k to 30k copies, based on its 748 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–30k; $87k–$233k after Steam's cut $158k–$359k before the cut; from 748 reviews (Mostly 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 Dark Light out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark Light's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–13.9M

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Dark Light

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–13.9M copies

≈ $14.3M–$85.4M after Steam's cut

from ~67k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 18.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Souls-like (6 of 8) and Metroidvania (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 3 of your 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Hollow Knight 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.2M–31.3M 8.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut $144.2M–$328.1M before the cut	$14.99	559k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Blasphemous 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $13.2M–$35.6M after Steam's cut $24.1M–$54.7M before the cut	$24.99	67k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaPixel Graphics
Awaken 2022	Est. copies ≈ 570–927 too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut	$9.99	23 reviews Mixed	ActionRPG
Blade Jumper 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut	$6.99	57 reviews Very Positive	AdventurePlatformer
The Surge 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 275k–447k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.4M before the cut	$29.99	10k reviews Mostly Positive	Souls-likeRPG
POWERNAUT DECAY 2024	Est. copies ≈ 322–524 too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $265–$713 after Steam's cut $481–$1k before the cut	$2.99	13 reviews Positive	ActionAdventure
Coral & The Abyss 2025	Est. copies ≈ 248–403 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $545–$1k after Steam's cut $991–$2k before the cut	$7.99	10 reviews Positive	ExplorationMetroidvania
Exosuit 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut	$4.99	72 reviews Mostly Positive	StylizedFPS