Genre HorrorReleased Sep 8, 2010

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Developed and published by Frictional Games
Estimated lifetime revenue
$4.77M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$3.34M
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
484.4K
≈ 14 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 35,834 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
35,834
Very Positive95% positive
Playing now
76
13-day peak 81 · low 47
New reviews, last 13 days
+34
≈ 3 a day since Oct 4

History

Oct 4 – Oct 17

35.8K35.8K35.8K35.8K
Oct 4Oct 10Oct 17

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Horror →

Against the 120 most-reviewed Horror games on Steam

Outearns 10% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.

Median
$18.34M
110,408 reviews
Top 10% start at
$68.34M
This game
$4.77M
4th pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

Developer
Frictional Games
Publisher
Frictional Games
Genre
Horror
Released
Sep 8, 2010
Steam app ID
57300
Data updated
Oct 17, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.