How much revenue did Dark Devotion make?

$396k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark Devotion sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark Devotion sell?

72k to 117k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 72k–117k; $396k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $719k–$1.6M 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 Dark Devotion out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark Devotion's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 107k–317k

best case 2.4M (UNO)

Games like Dark Devotion

The middle of these games

≈ 107k–317k copies

≈ $718k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Female Protagonist (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 711 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (4 of 8) and Metroidvania (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Tabletop, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Card Game + Multiplayer + Tabletop; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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 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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