How much revenue did Golden Light make?

$545k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Golden Light sell?

Q: How many copies did Golden Light sell?

99k to 161k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99k–161k; $545k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $991k–$2.3M before the cut; from 4k 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 Golden Light out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Golden Light's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.9M–38.0M

best case 99.2M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Golden Light

The middle of these games

≈ 10.9M–38.0M copies

≈ $101.2M–$540.1M after Steam's cut

from ~617k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 75.6M–122.8M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 85k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (3 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 61 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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