How much revenue did Dark Prospect make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark Prospect sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark Prospect sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 103 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut; from 103 reviews (Mixed)

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 Dark Prospect out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark Prospect's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18.3M–71.8M

best case 128.9M (Terraria)

Games like Dark Prospect

The middle of these games

≈ 18.3M–71.8M copies

≈ $211.6M–$457.8M after Steam's cut

from ~478k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (2 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Terraria at ≈ 98.2M–159.6M copies, ≈ $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (2 of 8) and Historical (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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Terraria 2011	Est. copies ≈ 98.2M–159.6M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut $490.5M–$1115.8M before the cut	$9.99	1.6M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
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