Dark Sector

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Dark Sector

Short description

A third-person Action/Shooter that thrusts players into a sci-fi flavored nightmare scenario set in the post Cold War era.

Developer
Digital Extremes
Publisher
Digital Extremes
Release
Tue, Mar 24, 2009
Price
$9.99
Reviews
670
Positive
86%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
500K – 1M
Concurrent players
36
Genres
Action
Features
Multi-player, Partial Controller Support
Tags
Action Third-Person Shooter Gore Singleplayer Shooter Third Person Violent Horror Sci-fi Multiplayer Difficult Co-op Atmospheric Hack and Slash
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$298ksomewhere between $132k and $9.9m · roughly 13K–1M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $9.88, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $9.99 launch price. That is 1% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

2 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$298k → ~$298k
Reviews 670 → 670
Positive reviews 86.0% → 86.0%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 191 further data points reach back to Feb 1, 2011 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $2.99 on Nov 25, 2012.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Dark Sector is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Action + Third-Person Shooter + Gore

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Dark Sector. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
El Matador El Matador Plastic Reality Technologies first game 5 − Gore + Bullet Time $3.99 388 73% Thu, Apr 03, 2014 $62k
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$39k – $155k
STAR WARS Battlefront II STAR WARS Battlefront II DICE 10 titles 4 − Gore − Third Person + Multiplayer + Space $39.99 87,878 88% Thu, Jun 11, 2020 $158m
$80m – $200m
Hitman: Absolution Hitman: Absolution IO Interactive A/S 8 titles 4 − Gore − Shooter + Stealth + Assassin $19.99 50,195 93% Mon, Nov 19, 2012 $45.2m
$40m – $80.3m
Wolfenstein: The New Order Wolfenstein: The New Order MachineGames 9 titles 4 − Third-Person Shooter − Third Person + FPS + Alternate History $19.99 46,776 91% Mon, May 19, 2014 $42.1m
$40m – $74.8m

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