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 $96k–$218k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid The Light Remake and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Light Remake's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–7.1M

best case 12.1M (DOOM)

Games like The Light Remake

A typical game among these

≈ 2.6M–7.1M copies

≈ $27.0M–$61.2M after Steam's cut

from ~48k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: DOOM at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $50.7M–$136.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (6 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Gore, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
SOMA 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.4M–$57.4M after Steam's cut $38.8M–$88.3M before Steam's 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–$17.1M after Steam's cut $11.5M–$26.3M before Steam's 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–$136.4M after Steam's cut $92.3M–$209.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.4M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut $66.3M–$150.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	140k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person
The Long Dark 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.3M–6.9M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.4M–$63.0M after Steam's cut $42.6M–$97.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	124k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion 2015	Est. copies ≈ 760k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	16k reviews Very Positive	HorrorFree to Play
Counter-Strike Nexon 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–4.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	43k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayFPS
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–$51.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	HorrorGore