How many copies did Darkwind sell?

27k to 44k copies, based on its 479 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Darkwind make?

Darkwind is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Darkwind?

Estimated owners: ≈ 27k–44k; from 479 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 Darkwind out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkwind's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–6.3M

best case 64.7M (War Thunder)

Games like Darkwind

The middle of these games

≈ 2.6M–6.3M copies

≈ $30.1M–$109.7M after Steam's cut

from ~79k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is FPS (2 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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.3M–80.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (2 of 8) and Sandbox (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat. The breakout hits carry Combat + World War II + Flight; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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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War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.3M–80.1M 9.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	780k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
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