How much revenue did Darkness Ritual: Impasse make?

$163–$438 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Darkness Ritual: Impasse sell?

Q: How many copies did Darkness Ritual: Impasse sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $163–$438 after Steam's cut $297–$674 before Steam's cut; from 12 reviews (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 Darkness Ritual: Impasse and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkness Ritual: Impasse's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–257k

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Darkness Ritual: Impasse

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–257k copies

≈ $137k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M 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 772 reviews in their first month; the range was 279 to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry VR + Online Co-Op + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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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Sally Face - Episode One 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.2M before Steam's cut	$2.99	30k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story Rich Psychological Horror
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Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. 2023	Est. copies ≈ 24k–40k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $67k–$181k after Steam's cut $122k–$278k before Steam's cut	$9.99	987 reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorSupernatural
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