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This 2006 first-person action RPG from Arkane Studios and Ubisoft emphasizes fantasy swordplay. It has achieved a "Very Positive" rating on Steam with 11,584 reviews.
Overview
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is a 2006 Action game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Ubisoft. On Steam it has gathered 11,600 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Arkane Studios with publisher Ubisoft 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 592,000 to 1.4 million 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, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
11,600
Positive
91%
Steam appid
2100
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0592K to 1.4M
units (median: 986K)
≈ $3.4M to $7.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2006 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_91% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dark Messiah of Might & Magic at roughly 592,000 to 1.4 million copies, with a median around 986,000, derived from its 11,600 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.6M 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
90d · low $5.37Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $5.37 to $9.99, averaging $9.36 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $5.37 on 2026-05-09.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
RPGFirst-PersonActionFantasySwordplayDark FantasyAdventureMagicClassicSingleplayerStealthMultiple EndingsMedievalAction RPGStory RichAtmosphericGoreImmersive SimHack and SlashMultiplayer
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dark Messiah of Might & Magic sold?
- indielist estimates Dark Messiah of Might & Magic has sold between 591,600 and 1,380,400 units (median 986,000), derived from its 11,600 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dark Messiah of Might & Magic?
- Dark Messiah of Might & Magic was developed by Arkane Studios and published by Ubisoft.
- When was Dark Messiah of Might & Magic released?
- Dark Messiah of Might & Magic was released in 2006.
- How many reviews does Dark Messiah of Might & Magic have on Steam?
- Dark Messiah of Might & Magic has 11,600 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Dark Messiah of Might & Magic within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Arkane Studios's other releases and Ubisoft's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dark Messiah of Might & Magic 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 Dark Messiah of Might & Magic 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.