How much revenue did The Darkest Tales make?

$127k–$342k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Darkest Tales sell?

Q: How many copies did The Darkest Tales sell?

23k to 38k copies, based on its 934 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–38k; $127k–$342k after Steam's cut $232k–$527k before Steam's cut; from 934 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 The Darkest Tales and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Darkest Tales's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 97k–123k

best case 1.5M (Nine Sols)

Games like The Darkest Tales

A typical game among these

≈ 97k–123k copies

≈ $877k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Nine Sols at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $9.4M–$25.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 936 reviews in their first month; the range was 386 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (6 of 8) and Action-Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Hand-drawn + Horror + 3D Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, 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 79 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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Nine Sols 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.4M–$25.2M after Steam's cut $17.0M–$38.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	46k reviews Very Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
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