How many copies has The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark sold?

indielist estimates The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark has sold between 81,804 and 190,876 units (median 136,340), derived from its 1,604 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark?

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark was developed by Spooky Doorway and published by Akupara Games.

Who published The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark?

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark 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: A Fumble in the Dark released?

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark was released in 2021.

How many reviews does The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark have on Steam?

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark has 1,604 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark worth playing?

Steam players rate The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark 96% positive across 1,604 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: A Fumble in the Dark

Apr 15, 2021 Adventure $14.99

Developer Spooky Doorway Publisher Akupara Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game focused on point-and-click style genre expectations, with no listed tags or notable engine data. The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark launched in 2021 from spooky-doorway and publisher akupara-games, priced at $14.99 with 1,584 Steam reviews marked mixed.

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Spooky Doorway and published by Akupara Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,604 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly 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 82,000 to 191,000 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: A Fumble in the Dark can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,604

Positive

96%

Steam appid

795420

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

82K to 191K

units (median: 136K)

≈ $700K to $1.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

82K median 191K

+ How is this calculated?

1,604 reviews × NB(85) = 136,340 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$15	0
positive_96%	+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 Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark at roughly 82,000 to 191,000 copies, with a median around 136,000, derived from its 1,604 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.2M 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

Affiliate disclosure

Steam reference -55%

$6.74 Buy
GOG.com -55%

$6.75 Buy
Humble Store

$14.99 Buy
Fanatical -10%

$15.19 Buy
Green Man Gaming

View

Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 07:59 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.

Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

Adventure CasualIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark sold?: indielist estimates The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark has sold between 81,804 and 190,876 units (median 136,340), derived from its 1,604 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark?: The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark was developed by Spooky Doorway and published by Akupara Games.
Who published The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark?: The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark 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: A Fumble in the Dark released?: The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark was released in 2021.
How many reviews does The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark have on Steam?: The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark has 1,604 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark worth playing?: Steam players rate The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark 96% positive across 1,604 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: A Fumble in the Dark 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: A Fumble in the Dark 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: A Fumble in the Dark 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.