How much revenue did Adventures in the Light & Dark make?

$67–$179 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Adventures in the Light & Dark sell?

Q: How many copies did Adventures in the Light & Dark sell?

122 to 198 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 122–198; $67–$179 after Steam's cut $121–$276 before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 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 Adventures in the Light & Dark out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Adventures in the Light & Dark's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–320k

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Adventures in the Light & Dark

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–320k copies

≈ $2k–$99k after Steam's cut

from ~92 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 21 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 331.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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