How many copies has Through the Darkest of Times sold?

indielist estimates Through the Darkest of Times has sold between 34,965 and 81,585 units (median 58,275), derived from its 777 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Through the Darkest of Times?

Through the Darkest of Times was developed by Paintbucket Games and published by HandyGames.

Who published Through the Darkest of Times?

Through the Darkest of Times was published by HandyGames, developed by Paintbucket Games. See HandyGames's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Through the Darkest of Times released?

Through the Darkest of Times was released in 2020.

How many reviews does Through the Darkest of Times have on Steam?

Through the Darkest of Times has 777 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.

Is Through the Darkest of Times worth playing?

Steam players rate Through the Darkest of Times 84% positive across 777 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.

Through the Darkest of Times

Jan 30, 2020 Adventure $14.99

Developer Paintbucket Games Publisher HandyGames

Profile updated Jul 2026

Adventure indie game from paintbucket-games, published by handygames. Released in 2020, Through the Darkest of Times has 1,147 Steam reviews with 84% positive, a mostly positive signal for a $14.99 title.

Through the Darkest of Times is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Paintbucket Games and published by HandyGames. On Steam it has gathered 777 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Paintbucket Games with publisher HandyGames 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 35,000 to 82,000 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, Through the Darkest of Times can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

777

Positive

84%

Steam appid

1003090

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

35K to 82K

units (median: 58K)

≈ $299K to $699K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

35K median 82K

+ How is this calculated?

777 reviews × NB(75) = 58,275 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2020	+15
price_$15	0
positive_84%	0
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	75

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 Through the Darkest of Times at roughly 35,000 to 82,000 copies, with a median around 58,000, derived from its 777 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $499K 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

15 observed days · window low $2.99

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-07, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-07-21.

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

Where to buy

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Humble Store

$14.99 Buy
Fanatical -10%

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

AdventureIndieSimulation Strategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Through the Darkest of Times sold?: indielist estimates Through the Darkest of Times has sold between 34,965 and 81,585 units (median 58,275), derived from its 777 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Through the Darkest of Times?: Through the Darkest of Times was developed by Paintbucket Games and published by HandyGames.
Who published Through the Darkest of Times?: Through the Darkest of Times was published by HandyGames, developed by Paintbucket Games. See HandyGames's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Through the Darkest of Times released?: Through the Darkest of Times was released in 2020.
How many reviews does Through the Darkest of Times have on Steam?: Through the Darkest of Times has 777 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
Is Through the Darkest of Times worth playing?: Steam players rate Through the Darkest of Times 84% positive across 777 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 Through the Darkest of Times 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, Paintbucket Games's other releases and HandyGames's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Through the Darkest of Times 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 Through the Darkest of Times 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.