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How many copies did There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 26k–42k
$142k–$382k after Steam's cut $259k–$588k before Steam's cut
from 1k reviews (Mostly 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 There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 360k–2.2M
best case 8.5M (DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin)
Games like There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 360k–2.2M copies

≈ $4.0M–$38.9M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin at ≈ 6.5M–10.5M copies, ≈ $71.3M–$191.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 6k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Dark Fantasy (6 of 8) and Souls-like (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $40.
When they shipped
The similar games 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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Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014
2014
Est. copies
≈ 1.2M–1.9M
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
$9.6M–$25.9M after Steam's cut $17.5M–$39.8M before Steam's cut
$29.99
21k reviews
Mixed
Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Nioh: Complete Edition
2017
Est. copies
≈ 1.3M–2.2M
1.8x vs typical
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$18.5M–$49.7M after Steam's cut $33.6M–$76.4M before Steam's cut
$49.99
39k reviews
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DARK SOULS™ II
2014
Est. copies
≈ 2.6M–4.3M
2.2x vs typical
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
$28.9M–$77.6M after Steam's cut $52.5M–$119.4M before Steam's cut
$39.99
47k reviews
Very Positive
Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™
2021
Est. copies
≈ 281k–457k
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
$2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.6M before Steam's cut
$29.99
11k reviews
Very Positive
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2022
Est. copies
≈ 254k–413k
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
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$24.99
10k reviews
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Hellsplit: Arena
2019
Est. copies
≈ 114k–185k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$783k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut
$24.99
4k reviews
Very Positive
VRAction
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
2015
Est. copies
≈ 6.5M–10.5M
6.2x vs typical
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$71.3M–$191.8M after Steam's cut $129.7M–$295.0M before Steam's cut
$39.99
133k reviews
Very Positive
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Blasphemous 2
2023
Est. copies
≈ 540k–878k
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
$6.7M–$18.0M after Steam's cut $12.1M–$27.6M before Steam's cut
$44.99
22k reviews
Very Positive
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