How much revenue did Starless Abyss make?

$47k–$126k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Starless Abyss sell?

Q: How many copies did Starless Abyss sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 343 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $47k–$126k after Steam's cut $85k–$193k before Steam's cut; from 343 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 Starless Abyss and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Starless Abyss's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 231k–321k

best case 8.9M (Darkest Dungeon®)

Games like Starless Abyss

A typical game among these

≈ 231k–321k copies

≈ $1.4M–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Darkest Dungeon® at ≈ 6.8M–11.0M copies, ≈ $46.5M–$125.1M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 13 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Dark Fantasy, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Dungeon Crawler + Difficult + Turn-Based Combat; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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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