How much revenue did Styx: Shards of Darkness make?

$1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Styx: Shards of Darkness sell?

Q: How many copies did Styx: Shards of Darkness sell?

242k to 393k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 242k–393k; $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 Styx: Shards of Darkness and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Styx: Shards of Darkness's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.5M–7.0M

best case 10.3M (Batman™: Arkham Knight)

Games like Styx: Shards of Darkness

A typical game among these

≈ 4.5M–7.0M copies

≈ $41.7M–$54.9M after Steam's cut

from ~76k 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: Batman™: Arkham Knight at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $43.0M–$115.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Stealth (8 of 8) and Third Person (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Superhero, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2019, 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 36 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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