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Action-focused entry in the Darksiders series from Gunfire Games, with Darksiders III launching in 2018 under publisher THQ Nordic. On Steam it has 17,136 reviews with 76% positive, rated mostly positive, and an initial price of $39.99.
Overview
Darksiders III is a 2018 Action game developed by Gunfire Games and published by THQ Nordic. On Steam it has gathered 17,146 player reviews, 76% 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 $40. The pairing of developer Gunfire Games with publisher THQ Nordic 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 823,000 to 1.9 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, Darksiders III can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
17,146
Positive
76%
Steam appid
606280
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0823K to 1.9M
units (median: 1.4M)
≈ $18.8M to $43.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$40 | +15 |
| positive_76% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 Darksiders III at roughly 823,000 to 1.9 million copies, with a median around 1.4 million, derived from its 17,146 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $31.3M 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 $23.49Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $23.49 to $39.99, averaging $36.94 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $23.49 on 2026-05-10.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Darksiders III sold?
- indielist estimates Darksiders III has sold between 823,008 and 1,920,352 units (median 1,371,680), derived from its 17,146 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Darksiders III?
- Darksiders III was developed by Gunfire Games and published by THQ Nordic.
- When was Darksiders III released?
- Darksiders III was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Darksiders III have on Steam?
- Darksiders III has 17,146 Steam reviews, of which 76% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Darksiders III within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Gunfire Games's other releases and THQ Nordic's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Darksiders III 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 Darksiders III 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.