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How many copies did DARK FACETS sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 198–322
$272–$731 after Steam's cut $494–$1k before Steam's cut
from 8 reviews (8 user reviews)
Only 8 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 FACETS and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DARK FACETS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 464–912
best case 62k (Grim Nights)
Games like DARK FACETS

A typical game among these

≈ 464–912 copies

≈ $741–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~20 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Grim Nights at ≈ 47k–77k copies, ≈ $39k–$104k 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 9 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 32.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Side Scroller (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Survival, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Base-Building + Survival + Zombies; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.
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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