How much revenue did Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder make?

$78k–$210k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder sell?

Q: How many copies did Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder sell?

36k to 58k copies, based on its 634 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 36k–58k; $78k–$210k after Steam's cut $142k–$323k before the cut; from 634 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.3M

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–2.3M copies

≈ $4.5M–$11.7M after Steam's cut

from ~32k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.4M–$307.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 15k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Psychological Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Exploration; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2023, and none of them 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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