How much revenue did Darkest Dungeon® make?

$46.2M–$124.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Darkest Dungeon® sell?

Q: How many copies did Darkest Dungeon® sell?

6.7M to 10.9M copies, based on its 162k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6.7M–10.9M; $46.2M–$124.2M after Steam's cut $84.0M–$191.0M before the cut; from 162k 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 Darkest Dungeon® out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkest Dungeon®'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 199k–244k

best case 1.5M (Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader)

Games like Darkest Dungeon®

The middle of these games

≈ 199k–244k copies

≈ $1.7M–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

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 Dark Fantasy (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: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $16.2M–$43.6M 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 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark Fantasy (4 of 8) and Rogue-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Cinematic, priced around $35.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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