How much revenue did When the Light Dies make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did When the Light Dies sell?

Q: How many copies did When the Light Dies sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 102 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 102 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 When the Light Dies and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including When the Light Dies's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 105k–352k

best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)

Games like When the Light Dies

A typical game among these

≈ 105k–352k copies

≈ $572k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.5M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Bullet Hell (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Dungeon Crawler + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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