How much revenue did Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones make?

$399k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones sell?

Q: How many copies did Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones sell?

73k to 118k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 73k–118k; $399k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $726k–$1.7M before the cut; from 3k 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 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 946k–1.1M

best case 8.8M (Darkest Dungeon®)

Games like Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones

The middle of these games

≈ 946k–1.1M copies

≈ $6.4M–$8.7M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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 Horror (3 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: Darkest Dungeon® at ≈ 6.7M–10.9M copies, ≈ $46.2M–$124.2M 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 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (3 of 8) and Lovecraftian (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Co-op, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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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