How much revenue did Dark Light make?

$87k–$234k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark Light sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark Light sell?

19k to 30k copies, based on its 751 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–30k; $87k–$234k after Steam's cut $158k–$360k before Steam's cut; from 751 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 Dark Light and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark Light's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–14.1M

best case 25.6M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Dark Light

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–14.1M copies

≈ $19.5M–$91.4M after Steam's cut

from ~68k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.5M–31.6M copies, ≈ $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 18.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Souls-like (6 of 8) and Metroidvania (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 of the 8 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 43 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
Hollow Knight 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.5M–31.6M 8.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut $145.9M–$332.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	566k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Blasphemous 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $18.8M–$50.7M after Steam's cut $34.3M–$78.0M before Steam's cut	$34.99	68k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaPixel Graphics
Awaken 2022	Est. copies ≈ 570–927 too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut	$9.99	23 reviews Mixed	ActionRPG
Blade Jumper 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut	$6.99	57 reviews Very Positive	AdventurePlatformer
The Surge 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 277k–450k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	10k reviews Mostly Positive	Souls-likeRPG
POWERNAUT DECAY 2024	Est. copies ≈ 322–524 too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $265–$713 after Steam's cut $481–$1k before Steam's cut	$2.99	13 reviews Positive	ActionAdventure
Coral & The Abyss 2025	Est. copies ≈ 273–443 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $600–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut	$7.99	11 reviews Positive	ExplorationMetroidvania
Exosuit 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$4.99	72 reviews Mostly Positive	StylizedFPS