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Casual indie game A Light in the Dark comes from developer crespirit and was published by Sekai Project. It released in 2018, is listed at $14.99, and has 1,534 Steam reviews with a mixed rating signal.
Overview
A Light in the Dark is a 2018 Casual game developed by CreSpirit and published by Sekai Project. On Steam it has gathered 1,534 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer CreSpirit with publisher Sekai Project is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 55,000 to 129,000 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, A Light in the Dark can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,534
Positive
93%
Steam appid
766280
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.055K to 129K
units (median: 92K)
≈ $473K to $1.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 60 |
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 A Light in the Dark at roughly 55,000 to 129,000 copies, with a median around 92,000, derived from its 1,534 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $788K 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
3 observed days · window low $8.99Across 3 observed UTC days from 2026-08-18 to 2026-09-01, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.99 to $8.99. The tracked-window low was $8.99 on 2026-08-18.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
CasualIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has A Light in the Dark sold?
- indielist estimates A Light in the Dark has sold between 55,224 and 128,856 units (median 92,040), derived from its 1,534 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed A Light in the Dark?
- A Light in the Dark was developed by CreSpirit and published by Sekai Project.
- Who published A Light in the Dark?
- A Light in the Dark was published by Sekai Project, developed by CreSpirit. See Sekai Project's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was A Light in the Dark released?
- A Light in the Dark was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does A Light in the Dark have on Steam?
- A Light in the Dark has 1,534 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is A Light in the Dark worth playing?
- Steam players rate A Light in the Dark 93% positive across 1,534 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 A Light in the Dark can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, CreSpirit's other releases and Sekai Project's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where A Light in the Dark 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 A Light in the Dark page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual 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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