How much revenue did The Uncertain: Light At The End make?

$84k–$227k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Uncertain: Light At The End sell?

Q: How many copies did The Uncertain: Light At The End sell?

31k to 50k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–50k; $84k–$227k after Steam's cut $153k–$349k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Mixed)

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 The Uncertain: Light At The End and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Uncertain: Light At The End's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.5M

best case 8.6M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like The Uncertain: Light At The End

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies

≈ $17.1M–$29.4M after Steam's cut

from ~42k 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: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $72.1M–$193.9M 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 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 88k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Cinematic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + FPS, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Open World + FPS + Post-apocalyptic; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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