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Darkest Dungeon is a 2016 indie RPG with strategy elements. It has garnered 137,981 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher are currently unknown.
Overview
Darkest Dungeon® is a 2016 Indie game developed by Red Hook Studios and published by Red Hook Studios. On Steam it has gathered 138,477 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Red Hook Studios with publisher Red Hook Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 7.9 million to 18.4 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, Darkest Dungeon® can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
138,477
Positive
92%
Steam appid
262060
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.07.9M to 18.4M
units (median: 13.2M)
≈ $112.7M to $262.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Darkest Dungeon® at roughly 7.9 million to 18.4 million copies, with a median around 13.2 million, derived from its 138,477 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $187.8M 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 $13.56Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.56 to $24.99, averaging $23.43 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.56 on 2026-04-30.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Turn-Based CombatDark FantasyDungeon CrawlerRogue-likeRPGLovecraftianDifficultTurn-BasedSingleplayerPerma DeathStrategyAtmosphericDarkIndie2DRogue-liteHorrorGothicFantasyKickstarter
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Darkest Dungeon® sold?
- indielist estimates Darkest Dungeon® has sold between 7,893,189 and 18,417,441 units (median 13,155,315), derived from its 138,477 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Darkest Dungeon®?
- Darkest Dungeon® was developed by Red Hook Studios and published by Red Hook Studios.
- When was Darkest Dungeon® released?
- Darkest Dungeon® was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Darkest Dungeon® have on Steam?
- Darkest Dungeon® has 138,477 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Darkest Dungeon® sold?
- indielist estimates Darkest Dungeon® has sold between 7,893,189 and 18,417,441 units (median 13,155,315), derived from its 138,477 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Darkest Dungeon®?
- Darkest Dungeon® was developed by Red Hook Studios and published by Red Hook Studios.
- When was Darkest Dungeon® released?
- Darkest Dungeon® was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Darkest Dungeon® have on Steam?
- Darkest Dungeon® has 138,477 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Darkest Dungeon® can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Dicey Dungeons, Die in the Dungeon, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Red Hook Studios's other releases and Red Hook Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Darkest Dungeon® 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 Darkest Dungeon® page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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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