How much revenue did DARQ: Complete Edition make?

$664k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DARQ: Complete Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did DARQ: Complete Edition sell?

121k to 196k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 121k–196k; $664k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 DARQ: Complete Edition and predicted how it would do from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including DARQ: Complete Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.5M–10.3M

best case 12.4M (Deep Rock Galactic)

Games like DARQ: Complete Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 8.5M–10.3M copies

≈ $85.5M–$141.0M after Steam's cut

from ~227k 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 5 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Horror (2 of 5), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Deep Rock Galactic at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 68k reviews in their first month; the range was 40k to 102k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (2 of 5) and Survival Horror (2 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Co-op, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 5 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 61 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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Resident Evil 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $70.9M–$190.7M after Steam's cut $129.0M–$293.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	224k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
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