How much revenue did Тёмное отражение (Dark Reflection) make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Тёмное отражение (Dark Reflection) sell?

Q: How many copies did Тёмное отражение (Dark Reflection) sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 65 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 65 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 Тёмное отражение (Dark Reflection) and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Тёмное отражение (Dark Reflection)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.0M–5.6M

best case 12.1M (DOOM)

Games like Тёмное отражение (Dark Reflection)

A typical game among these

≈ 4.0M–5.6M copies

≈ $72.3M–$85.7M after Steam's cut

from ~141k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Gore (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

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

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 45k reviews in their first month; the range was 24k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Gore (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Gore, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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 52 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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