How many copies has Darkest Dungeon® sold?

indielist estimates Darkest Dungeon® has sold between 7,940,442 and 18,527,698 units (median 13,234,070), derived from its 139,306 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.

Who published Darkest Dungeon®?

Darkest Dungeon® was published by Red Hook Studios, developed by Red Hook Studios. See Red Hook Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Darkest Dungeon® released?

Darkest Dungeon® was released in 2016.

How many reviews does Darkest Dungeon® have on Steam?

Darkest Dungeon® has 139,306 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is Darkest Dungeon® worth playing?

Steam players rate Darkest Dungeon® 92% positive across 139,306 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.

Darkest Dungeon®

Jan 19, 2016 Indie $24.99

Developer Red Hook Studios Publisher Red Hook Studios

Profile updated May 2026

Darkest Dungeon is a 2016 indie RPG with strategy elements. It has garnered 137,981 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher are currently unknown.

Darkest Dungeon® is a 2016 Indie game developed by Red Hook Studios and published by Red Hook Studios. On Steam it has gathered 139,306 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 7.9 million to 18.5 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

139,306

Positive

92%

Steam appid

262060

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

2,817

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 19:30 UTC · 24h peak 4,189

Sales estimate

v1.0

7.9M to 18.5M

units (median: 13.2M)

≈ $113.3M to $264.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

7.9M median 18.5M

+ How is this calculated?

139,306 reviews × NB(95) = 13,234,070 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$25	+5
positive_92%	+10
final NB	95

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 Darkest Dungeon® at roughly 7.9 million to 18.5 million copies, with a median around 13.2 million, derived from its 139,306 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $188.9M 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

54 observed days · window low $3.19

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.19 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $3.19 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Humble Store -87%

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GOG.com -85%

$3.75 Buy
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$24.99 Buy
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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Darkest Dungeon® sold?: indielist estimates Darkest Dungeon® has sold between 7,940,442 and 18,527,698 units (median 13,234,070), derived from its 139,306 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published Darkest Dungeon®?: Darkest Dungeon® was published by Red Hook Studios, developed by Red Hook Studios. See Red Hook Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Darkest Dungeon® released?: Darkest Dungeon® was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Darkest Dungeon® have on Steam?: Darkest Dungeon® has 139,306 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is Darkest Dungeon® worth playing?: Steam players rate Darkest Dungeon® 92% positive across 139,306 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.

Players looking for games like Darkest Dungeon® can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Iratus: Lord of the Dead, Othercide, Darkest Dungeon® II, Slay the Spire, 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.