How much revenue did Darkness Ritual: Impasse make?

$150–$401 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Darkness Ritual: Impasse sell?

Q: How many copies did Darkness Ritual: Impasse sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $150–$401 after Steam's cut $272–$617 before the cut; from 11 reviews (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 Darkness Ritual: Impasse out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkness Ritual: Impasse's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–256k

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Darkness Ritual: Impasse

The middle of these games

≈ 32k–256k copies

≈ $137k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.1M 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 772 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 279 to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry VR + Online Co-Op + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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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