How much revenue did Darkest Dungeon® make?

$46.5M–$125.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Darkest Dungeon® sell?

Q: How many copies did Darkest Dungeon® sell?

6.8M to 11.0M copies, based on its 163k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6.8M–11.0M; $46.5M–$125.1M after Steam's cut $84.6M–$192.5M before Steam's cut; from 163k 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 Darkest Dungeon® and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkest Dungeon®'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 199k–245k

best case 1.6M (Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader)

Games like Darkest Dungeon®

A typical game among these

≈ 199k–245k copies

≈ $1.8M–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

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 Dark Fantasy (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: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $16.5M–$44.4M 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 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dark Fantasy (4 of 8) and Rogue-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Cinematic, priced around $35.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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