How much revenue did Dark and Bright make?

$453–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark and Bright sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark and Bright sell?

413 to 671 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 413–671; $453–$1k after Steam's cut $824–$2k before Steam's cut; from 12 reviews (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 Dark and Bright and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark and Bright's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 110k–220k

best case 958k (Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty)

Games like Dark and Bright

A typical game among these

≈ 110k–220k copies

≈ $758k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty at ≈ 730k–1.2M copies, ≈ $8.0M–$21.6M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 620 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (5 of 8) and Historical (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Action RPG, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Souls-like + Difficult + Dark Fantasy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 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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