How much revenue did Dark spot make?

$122–$330 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark spot sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark spot sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $122–$330 after Steam's cut $222–$507 before the cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Thin evidence: 3 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 spot out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark spot's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–18k

best case 242k (THE LONGING)

Games like Dark spot

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–18k copies

≈ $2k–$11k after Steam's cut

from ~256 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Idler (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: THE LONGING at ≈ 184k–300k copies, ≈ $760k–$2.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 2k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (4 of 8) and Experimental (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Transportation + Management, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Transportation + Strategy + Management; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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