How much revenue did Styx: Shards of Darkness make?

$1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Styx: Shards of Darkness sell?

Q: How many copies did Styx: Shards of Darkness sell?

240k to 390k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 240k–390k; $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before the cut; from 7k 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 Styx: Shards of Darkness out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Styx: Shards of Darkness's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.5M–7.0M

best case 10.2M (Batman™: Arkham Knight)

Games like Styx: Shards of Darkness

The middle of these games

≈ 4.5M–7.0M copies

≈ $41.2M–$54.6M after Steam's cut

from ~75k 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: Batman™: Arkham Knight at ≈ 7.8M–12.6M copies, ≈ $42.7M–$114.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Stealth (8 of 8) and Third Person (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Superhero, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2019, 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 36 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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