How many copies has The Darkside Detective sold?

indielist estimates The Darkside Detective has sold between 223,560 and 521,640 units (median 372,600), derived from its 3,726 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Darkside Detective?

The Darkside Detective was developed by Spooky Doorway and published by Akupara Games.

Who published The Darkside Detective?

The Darkside Detective was published by Akupara Games, developed by Spooky Doorway. See Akupara Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Darkside Detective released?

The Darkside Detective was released in 2017.

How many reviews does The Darkside Detective have on Steam?

The Darkside Detective has 3,726 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is The Darkside Detective worth playing?

Steam players rate The Darkside Detective 94% positive across 3,726 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 Darkside Detective

Jul 27, 2017 Adventure $14.99

Developer Spooky Doorway Publisher Akupara Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game The Darkside Detective focuses on the genre angle rather than tag-defined niches, with no engine listed. It released in 2017 from developer spooky-doorway and publisher akupara-games, with 3,702 Steam reviews marked 0% positive / mixed and a $14.99 initial price.

The Darkside Detective is a 2017 Adventure game developed by Spooky Doorway and published by Akupara Games. On Steam it has gathered 3,726 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Spooky Doorway with publisher Akupara Games 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 224,000 to 522,000 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 Darkside Detective can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

3,726

Positive

94%

Steam appid

368390

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

224K to 522K

units (median: 373K)

≈ $1.9M to $4.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

224K median 522K

+ How is this calculated?

3,726 reviews × NB(100) = 372,600 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$15	0
positive_94%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	100

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 Darkside Detective at roughly 224,000 to 522,000 copies, with a median around 373,000, derived from its 3,726 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.2M 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

8 observed days · window low $6.74

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.74 to $6.74. The tracked-window low was $6.74 on 2026-07-15.

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

Where to buy

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Steam reference -55%

$6.74 Buy
GOG.com -55%

$6.75 Buy
Humble Store

$14.99 Buy
Fanatical -10%

$15.19 Buy
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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

Adventure CasualIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Darkside Detective sold?: indielist estimates The Darkside Detective has sold between 223,560 and 521,640 units (median 372,600), derived from its 3,726 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Darkside Detective?: The Darkside Detective was developed by Spooky Doorway and published by Akupara Games.
Who published The Darkside Detective?: The Darkside Detective was published by Akupara Games, developed by Spooky Doorway. See Akupara Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Darkside Detective released?: The Darkside Detective was released in 2017.
How many reviews does The Darkside Detective have on Steam?: The Darkside Detective has 3,726 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is The Darkside Detective worth playing?: Steam players rate The Darkside Detective 94% positive across 3,726 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 Darkside Detective 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, Spooky Doorway's other releases and Akupara Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Darkside Detective 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 Darkside Detective 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.