How much revenue did The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark make?

$205k–$552k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark sell?

Q: How many copies did The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark sell?

50k to 81k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50k–81k; $205k–$552k after Steam's cut $374k–$850k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.8M

best case 4.9M (Disco Elysium - The Final Cut)

Games like The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–2.8M copies

≈ $11.5M–$18.5M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut at ≈ 3.8M–6.1M copies, ≈ $41.3M–$111.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Detective (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Story Rich, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Choices Matter + Isometric; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2019, 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 36 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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L.A. Noire 2011	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.8M–$34.4M after Steam's cut $23.2M–$52.9M before the cut	$19.99	37k reviews Very Positive	DetectiveCrime
Unheard - Voices of Crime 2019	Est. copies ≈ 976k–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.8M before the cut	$6.99	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectivePuzzle
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.7M–$28.6M after Steam's cut $19.4M–$44.1M before the cut	$29.99	45k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectiveVisual Novel
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Return of the Obra Dinn 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$15.7M after Steam's cut $10.6M–$24.2M before the cut	$19.99	35k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectiveMystery
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