How much revenue did Darwins Trash make?

$272–$733 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Darwins Trash sell?

Q: How many copies did Darwins Trash sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $272–$733 after Steam's cut $495–$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 Darwins Trash and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darwins Trash's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 598–2k

best case 15k (Spooky Station)

Games like Darwins Trash

A typical game among these

≈ 598–2k copies

≈ $3k–$9k after Steam's cut

from ~31 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Spooky Station at ≈ 12k–19k copies, ≈ $16k–$43k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 42.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (5 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Arcade + Rogue-like, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, 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 52 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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