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How many copies did Dark and Bright sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 413–671
$453–$1k after Steam's cut $824–$2k before the cut
from 12 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Dark and Bright out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark and Bright's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 109k–218k
best case 953k (Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty)
Games like Dark and Bright

The middle of these games

≈ 109k–218k copies

≈ $749k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty at ≈ 726k–1.2M copies, ≈ $8.0M–$21.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 620 to 20k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on JRPG (5 of 8) and Historical (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Souls-like + Action RPG, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Souls-like + Difficult + Dark Fantasy; a typical game here doesn't.
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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