How much revenue did Darkwood make?

$4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Darkwood sell?

Q: How many copies did Darkwood sell?

854k to 1.4M copies, based on its 25k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 854k–1.4M; $4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.4M before the cut; from 25k 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 Darkwood out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkwood's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 81k–118k

best case 358k (Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition)

Games like Darkwood

The middle of these games

≈ 81k–118k copies

≈ $223k–$579k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition at ≈ 273k–443k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.4M 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 782 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 502 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Survival Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Psychological Horror, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Multiple Endings + Puzzle; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 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 52 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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