How much revenue did Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition make?

$85k–$230k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition sell?

31k to 51k copies, based on its 904 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–51k; $85k–$230k after Steam's cut $155k–$353k before the cut; from 904 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 Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–85k

best case 250k (Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery)

Games like Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 30k–85k copies

≈ $129k–$411k after Steam's cut

from ~999 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery at ≈ 191k–310k copies, ≈ $681k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 200 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 33 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Hidden Object (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Puzzle, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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