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How many copies did Darksburg sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 62k–102k
$258k–$693k after Steam's cut $468k–$1.1M 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.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.1M–4.1M
best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)
Games like Darksburg

The middle of these games

≈ 3.1M–4.1M copies

≈ $16.7M–$27.2M after Steam's cut

from ~97k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M 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 63k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42k to 103k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Rogue-like (5 of 8) and Action Roguelike (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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