How much revenue did Deadlight: Director's Cut make?

$226k–$608k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deadlight: Director's Cut sell?

Q: How many copies did Deadlight: Director's Cut sell?

69k to 111k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 69k–111k; $226k–$608k after Steam's cut $411k–$935k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Deadlight: Director's Cut out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deadlight: Director's Cut's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–308k

best case 1.1M (Deadlight)

Games like Deadlight: Director's Cut

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–308k copies

≈ $46k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~633 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Deadlight at ≈ 807k–1.3M copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 54 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 31 to 390.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (6 of 8) and Post-apocalyptic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Platformer, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Deadlight 2012	Est. copies ≈ 807k–1.3M 20x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.8M before the cut	$14.99	13k reviews Mostly Positive	ZombiesPlatformer
Dark Light 2022	Est. copies ≈ 19k–30k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $87k–$233k after Steam's cut $158k–$359k before the cut	$16.99	748 reviews Mostly Positive	ActionMetroidvania
Mayhem in Single Valley: Confessions 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	91 reviews Very Positive	ActionAdventure
The Final Station 2016	Est. copies ≈ 395k–642k 15x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.7M before the cut	$14.99	9k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsPost-apocalyptic
Bubsy Two-Fur 2015	Est. copies ≈ 25k–41k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $173k–$466k after Steam's cut $315k–$717k before the cut	$24.99	517 reviews Mostly Positive	ActionAdventure
The Underground Man 2 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut	$2.49	145 reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsPost-apocalyptic
Adrenaline Rampage 2025	Est. copies ≈ 992–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before the cut	$14.99	40 reviews Positive	Early AccessRPG
I Am Alive 2012	Est. copies ≈ 181k–295k 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mixed	SurvivalPost-apocalyptic