How much revenue did Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game make?

$375k–$1.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game sell?

137k to 222k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 137k–222k; $375k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $682k–$1.6M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.4M–8.9M

best case 19.8M (Hearts of Iron IV)

Games like Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game

A typical game among these

≈ 3.4M–8.9M copies

≈ $29.3M–$121.3M after Steam's cut

from ~83k 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: Hearts of Iron IV at ≈ 15.1M–24.6M copies, ≈ $207.7M–$558.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share World War II (7 of 8) and War (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with World War II + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2020, 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 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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