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How many copies did Darkness Reborn sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 74–121
$41–$110 after Steam's cut $74–$169 before Steam's cut
from 3 reviews (3 user reviews)
Only 3 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 Darkness Reborn and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkness Reborn's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 626k–972k
best case 1.1M (The First Berserker: Khazan)
Games like Darkness Reborn

A typical game among these

≈ 626k–972k copies

≈ $9.0M–$19.1M after Steam's cut

from ~27k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The First Berserker: Khazan at ≈ 812k–1.3M copies, ≈ $13.4M–$36.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 144 reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 14k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Villain Protagonist (5 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Souls-like + Hack and Slash, priced around $60.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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