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How many copies did Darkness Reborn sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 74–121
$41–$110 after Steam's cut $74–$169 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.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 616k–951k
best case 1.0M (The First Berserker: Khazan)
Games like Darkness Reborn

The middle of these games

≈ 616k–951k copies

≈ $8.8M–$18.7M after Steam's cut

from ~26k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The First Berserker: Khazan at ≈ 796k–1.3M copies, ≈ $13.1M–$35.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 144 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 14k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Villain Protagonist (5 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Souls-like + Hack and Slash, priced around $60.
The era
4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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