How much revenue did Dark and Light make?

$2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark and Light sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark and Light sell?

407k to 661k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 407k–661k; $2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut $3.7M–$8.3M before the cut; from 12k 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 Dark and Light out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark and Light's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11.1M–24.1M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Dark and Light

The middle of these games

≈ 11.1M–24.1M copies

≈ $122.1M–$361.1M after Steam's cut

from ~415k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 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 57k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 33k to 182k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (6 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Third-Person Shooter + Battle Royale + FPS; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2022, 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 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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