How much revenue did Dark Scavenger make?

$19k–$50k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark Scavenger sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark Scavenger sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 243 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $19k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$77k before the cut; from 243 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 Dark Scavenger out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark Scavenger's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 205k–555k

best case 6.5M (FTL: Faster Than Light)

Games like Dark Scavenger

The middle of these games

≈ 205k–555k copies

≈ $1.7M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: FTL: Faster Than Light at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies, ≈ $13.6M–$36.7M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 509 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Space, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Rogue-like + Strategy + Sci-fi; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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