How much revenue did In Darkness make?

$380–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did In Darkness sell?

Q: How many copies did In Darkness sell?

173 to 281 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 173–281; $380–$1k after Steam's cut $691–$2k before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 513k–3.3M

best case 7.3M (Path of Exile 2)

Games like In Darkness

The middle of these games

≈ 513k–3.3M copies

≈ $3.9M–$49.7M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Path of Exile 2 at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $45.9M–$123.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 102k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (8 of 8) and Hack and Slash (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 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 79 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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