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How big is Dark Roll?

Estimated owners
≈ 7k–12k
from 256 reviews (Very 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 Dark Roll out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark Roll's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 570–2k
best case 63k (PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC)
Games like Dark Roll

The middle of these games

≈ 570–2k copies

≈ $457–$8k after Steam's cut

from ~22 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC at ≈ 48k–78k copies, ≈ $395k–$1.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 305 reviews in their first month.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (5 of 8) and Arcade (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + 1990's, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Family Friendly + 1990's + Remake; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 36 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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