How much revenue did Draft of Darkness make?

$37k–$100k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Draft of Darkness sell?

Q: How many copies did Draft of Darkness sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 364 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $37k–$100k after Steam's cut $68k–$154k before Steam's cut; from 364 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 Draft of Darkness and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Draft of Darkness's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 402k–439k

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like Draft of Darkness

A typical game among these

≈ 402k–439k copies

≈ $3.0M–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Roguelike Deckbuilder (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: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.6M 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 35k reviews in their first month; the range was 31 to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Roguelike Deckbuilder (4 of 8) and Card Battler (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Horror + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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Dicey Dungeons 2019	Est. copies ≈ 343k–558k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Roguelike DeckbuilderCard Battler
Slay the Spire 2019	Est. copies ≈ 6.3M–10.3M 18x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $43.5M–$116.9M after Steam's cut $79.0M–$179.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	220k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Roguelike DeckbuilderCard Game
Lethal Company 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12.7M–20.6M 43x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.8M–$93.6M after Steam's cut $63.3M–$144.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	511k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Online Co-OpHorror
Across the Obelisk 2022	Est. copies ≈ 326k–529k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Rogue-likeStrategy
Escape the Backrooms 2025	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut $20.7M–$47.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	167k reviews Very Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Cards of the Dead 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$24k before Steam's cut	$7.99	106 reviews Mostly Positive	ControllerAction
Content Warning 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$24.0M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.9M before Steam's cut	$7.99	164k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpHorror
Book of Demons 2018	Est. copies ≈ 287k–467k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	9k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon Crawler Roguelike Deckbuilder