How much revenue did Alone in the Dark make?

$1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alone in the Dark sell?

Q: How many copies did Alone in the Dark sell?

121k to 196k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 121k–196k; $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before the cut; from 5k 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 Alone in the Dark out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alone in the Dark's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.6M

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Alone in the Dark

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–2.6M copies

≈ $10.2M–$22.3M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10k to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Psychological Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Supernatural + VR + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2023, 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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Layers of Fear (2016) 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's cut $11.5M–$26.2M before the cut	$19.99	28k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Lobotomy Corporation \| Monster Management Simulation 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.8M–$31.8M after Steam's cut $21.5M–$49.0M before the cut	$24.99	57k reviews Very Positive	ManagementDifficult
DREDGE 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.4M–$28.0M after Steam's cut $18.9M–$43.0M before the cut	$26.99	56k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ExplorationFishing
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Phasmophobia 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.8M 24x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$307.1M after Steam's cut $207.7M–$472.5M before the cut	$19.99	838k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
SOMA 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.1M–$56.7M after Steam's cut $38.4M–$87.3M before the cut	$29.99	52k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Darkwood 2017	Est. copies ≈ 854k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.4M before the cut	$19.99	25k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
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