How much revenue did Darksiders III make?

$5.8M–$15.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Darksiders III sell?

Q: How many copies did Darksiders III sell?

529k to 859k copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 529k–859k; $5.8M–$15.6M after Steam's cut $10.6M–$24.1M before the cut; from 17k 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 Darksiders III out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darksiders III's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 953k–1.2M

best case 1.3M (Bright Memory: Infinite)

Games like Darksiders III

The middle of these games

≈ 953k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.3M–$14.7M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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: Bright Memory: Infinite at ≈ 988k–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 18k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 415 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Souls-like (6 of 8) and Female Protagonist (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Sexual Content, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 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 36 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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