How much revenue did Aliens: Dark Descent make?

$5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aliens: Dark Descent sell?

Q: How many copies did Aliens: Dark Descent sell?

463k to 753k copies, based on its 19k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 463k–753k; $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.1M before the cut; from 19k 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 Aliens: Dark Descent out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Aliens: Dark Descent's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 428k–1.0M

best case 3.6M (STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack)

Games like Aliens: Dark Descent

The middle of these games

≈ 428k–1.0M copies

≈ $4.7M–$10.6M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $15.0M–$40.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (8 of 8) and Sci-fi (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + Space, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Moddable + Mod + Space; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2022, 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 31 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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