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Action indie game Darkwater launched in 2026 from developer targon-studios and publisher Playstack. It has 948 Steam reviews marked 0% positive and mixed, with a budget initial price of $9.99.
Overview
Darkwater is a 2026 Action game developed by Targon Studios and published by Playstack. On Steam it has gathered 972 player reviews, 79% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Targon Studios with publisher Playstack is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 20,000 to 48,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Darkwater can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
972
Positive
79%
Steam appid
619540
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.020K to 48K
units (median: 34K)
≈ $116K to $272K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_79% | 0 |
| final NB | 35 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Darkwater at roughly 20,000 to 48,000 copies, with a median around 34,000, derived from its 972 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $194K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
9 observed days · window low $9.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Darkwater sold?
- indielist estimates Darkwater has sold between 20,412 and 47,628 units (median 34,020), derived from its 972 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Darkwater?
- Darkwater was developed by Targon Studios and published by Playstack.
- Who published Darkwater?
- Darkwater was published by Playstack, developed by Targon Studios. See Playstack's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Darkwater released?
- Darkwater was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Darkwater have on Steam?
- Darkwater has 972 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.
- Is Darkwater worth playing?
- Steam players rate Darkwater 79% positive across 972 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Darkwater can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Targon Studios's other releases and Playstack's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Darkwater sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Darkwater page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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