How much revenue did Dark Matter make?

$46k–$123k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark Matter sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark Matter sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 264 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $46k–$123k after Steam's cut $83k–$190k before the cut; from 264 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 200k–340k

best case 629k (The Swapper)

Games like Dark Matter

The middle of these games

≈ 200k–340k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.2M 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: The Swapper at ≈ 479k–778k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (6 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Sci-fi, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2021, 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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