How many copies has The Dark Room sold?

indielist estimates The Dark Room has sold between 5,559 and 12,971 units (median 9,265), derived from its 109 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published The Dark Room?

The Dark Room was published by John Robertson, developed by Developers At Large. See John Robertson's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Dark Room released?

The Dark Room was released in 2018.

How many reviews does The Dark Room have on Steam?

The Dark Room has 109 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.

Is The Dark Room worth playing?

Steam players rate The Dark Room 90% positive across 109 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.

The Dark Room

Sep 19, 2018 Adventure $13.99

Developer Developers At Large Publisher John Robertson

Profile updated Aug 2026

Adventure indie game The Dark Room launched in 2018 from developer developers-at-large and publisher John Robertson. It has 109 Steam reviews marked mixed at 0% positive, with an initial price of $13.99 and no listed engine.

The Dark Room is a 2018 Adventure game developed by Developers At Large and published by John Robertson. On Steam it has gathered 109 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $14. The pairing of developer Developers At Large with publisher John Robertson is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 6,000 to 13,000 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, The Dark Room can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

109

Positive

90%

Steam appid

918530

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

6K to 13K

units (median: 9K)

≈ $44K to $104K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

6K median 13K

+ How is this calculated?

109 reviews × NB(85) = 9,265 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$14	0
positive_90%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	85

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 The Dark Room at roughly 6,000 to 13,000 copies, with a median around 9,000, derived from its 109 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $74K 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

4 observed days · window low $13.99

Across 4 observed UTC days from 2026-08-16 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $13.99 to $13.99. The tracked-window low was $13.99 on 2026-08-16.

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

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

AdventureIndieEarly Access

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Dark Room sold?: indielist estimates The Dark Room has sold between 5,559 and 12,971 units (median 9,265), derived from its 109 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Dark Room?: The Dark Room was developed by Developers At Large and published by John Robertson.
Who published The Dark Room?: The Dark Room was published by John Robertson, developed by Developers At Large. See John Robertson's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Dark Room released?: The Dark Room was released in 2018.
How many reviews does The Dark Room have on Steam?: The Dark Room has 109 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Is The Dark Room worth playing?: Steam players rate The Dark Room 90% positive across 109 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 The Dark Room can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Developers At Large's other releases and John Robertson's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Dark Room 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 The Dark Room page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.