How much revenue did KARMA: The Dark World make?

$771k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did KARMA: The Dark World sell?

Q: How many copies did KARMA: The Dark World sell?

112k to 182k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 112k–182k; $771k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before the cut; from 5k 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 KARMA: The Dark World out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including KARMA: The Dark World's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–5.4M

best case 22.6M (No Man's Sky)

Games like KARMA: The Dark World

The middle of these games

≈ 2.1M–5.4M copies

≈ $16.6M–$45.8M after Steam's cut

from ~44k 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: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.2M–28.0M copies, ≈ $284.5M–$764.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (6 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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