How much revenue did Dark Scavenger make?

$19k–$50k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark Scavenger sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark Scavenger sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 243 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $19k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$77k before Steam's cut; from 243 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 Dark Scavenger and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark Scavenger's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 207k–556k

best case 6.5M (FTL: Faster Than Light)

Games like Dark Scavenger

A typical game among these

≈ 207k–556k copies

≈ $1.7M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: FTL: Faster Than Light at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies, ≈ $13.7M–$36.8M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 509 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Space, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Rogue-like + Strategy + Sci-fi; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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 79 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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