How much revenue did The Light Remake make?

$53k–$141k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Light Remake sell?

Q: How many copies did The Light Remake sell?

38k to 62k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 38k–62k; $53k–$141k after Steam's cut $95k–$217k before the cut; from 2k 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 The Light Remake out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Light Remake's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–7.1M

best case 12.1M (DOOM)

Games like The Light Remake

The middle of these games

≈ 2.6M–7.1M copies

≈ $26.9M–$60.7M after Steam's cut

from ~48k 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: DOOM at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $50.7M–$136.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (6 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Gore, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2017, 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 43 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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SOMA 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.2M–$57.0M after Steam's cut $38.5M–$87.7M before the cut	$29.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Layers of Fear (2016) 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's cut $11.5M–$26.2M before the cut	$19.99	28k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
DOOM 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.7M–$136.2M after Steam's cut $92.1M–$209.6M before the cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.2M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.1M–$97.1M after Steam's cut $65.7M–$149.5M before the cut	$14.99	139k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person
The Long Dark 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.9M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.4M–$62.8M after Steam's cut $42.5M–$96.6M before the cut	$19.99	123k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's cut $22.6M–$51.3M before the cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	HorrorGore