How much revenue did The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan make?

$2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan sell?

Q: How many copies did The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan sell?

400k to 650k copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 400k–650k; $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.1M before the cut; from 14k reviews (Mostly 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 Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 404k–2.1M

best case 7.1M (Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition)

Games like The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

The middle of these games

≈ 404k–2.1M copies

≈ $1.8M–$14.8M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition at ≈ 5.4M–8.8M copies, ≈ $89.6M–$240.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 166 to 72k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Co-op (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Co-op, priced around $60.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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