How much revenue did Draft of Darkness make?

$37k–$100k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Draft of Darkness sell?

Q: How many copies did Draft of Darkness sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 363 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $37k–$100k after Steam's cut $67k–$154k before the cut; from 363 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 Draft of Darkness out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Draft of Darkness's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 402k–436k

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like Draft of Darkness

The middle of these games

≈ 402k–436k copies

≈ $2.9M–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Roguelike Deckbuilder (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.5M 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 35k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 31 to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Roguelike Deckbuilder (4 of 8) and Card Battler (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Horror + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 2 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 38 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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