How much revenue did When the Light Dies make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did When the Light Dies sell?

Q: How many copies did When the Light Dies sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 99 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut; from 99 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 When the Light Dies out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including When the Light Dies's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 104k–351k

best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)

Games like When the Light Dies

The middle of these games

≈ 104k–351k copies

≈ $567k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.4M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Dungeon Crawler + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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