How many copies has The Lightkeeper sold?

indielist estimates The Lightkeeper has sold between 30,402 and 70,938 units (median 50,670), derived from its 1,126 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Lightkeeper?

The Lightkeeper was developed by Darkphobia Games and published by Darkphobia Games.

Who published The Lightkeeper?

The Lightkeeper was published by Darkphobia Games, developed by Darkphobia Games. See Darkphobia Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Lightkeeper released?

The Lightkeeper was released in 2025.

How many reviews does The Lightkeeper have on Steam?

The Lightkeeper has 1,126 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.

Is The Lightkeeper worth playing?

Steam players rate The Lightkeeper 81% positive across 1,126 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 Lightkeeper

Sep 7, 2025 Adventure $7.99

Developer Darkphobia Games Publisher Darkphobia Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game The Lightkeeper comes from darkphobia-games, with the same slug listed as developer and publisher. Released in 2025 at $7.99, it has 949 Steam reviews recorded as 0% positive with a mixed rating.

The Lightkeeper is a 2025 Adventure game developed by Darkphobia Games and published by Darkphobia Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,126 player reviews, 81% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Darkphobia Games with publisher Darkphobia 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 30,000 to 71,000 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 Lightkeeper can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,126

Positive

81%

Steam appid

3612850

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

30K to 71K

units (median: 51K)

≈ $139K to $324K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

30K median 71K

+ How is this calculated?

1,126 reviews × NB(45) = 50,670 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2025	-10
price_$8	-5
positive_81%	0
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	45

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 Lightkeeper at roughly 30,000 to 71,000 copies, with a median around 51,000, derived from its 1,126 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $231K 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

13 observed days · window low $3.59

Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-30 to 2026-10-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.59 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $3.59 on 2026-10-08.

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

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Lightkeeper sold?: indielist estimates The Lightkeeper has sold between 30,402 and 70,938 units (median 50,670), derived from its 1,126 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Lightkeeper?: The Lightkeeper was developed by Darkphobia Games and published by Darkphobia Games.
Who published The Lightkeeper?: The Lightkeeper was published by Darkphobia Games, developed by Darkphobia Games. See Darkphobia Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Lightkeeper released?: The Lightkeeper was released in 2025.
How many reviews does The Lightkeeper have on Steam?: The Lightkeeper has 1,126 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
Is The Lightkeeper worth playing?: Steam players rate The Lightkeeper 81% positive across 1,126 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 Lightkeeper 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, Darkphobia Games's other releases and Darkphobia Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Lightkeeper 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 Lightkeeper 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.