DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
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This action RPG, released in 2015, offers a challenging Souls-like experience in a dark fantasy setting. Published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, it has garnered 82,143 Steam reviews with an 84% positive rating, indicating strong player reception.
Overview
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin is a 2015 Action game developed by FromSoftware, Inc. and published by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 82,305 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $40. The pairing of developer FromSoftware, Inc. with publisher BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4.7 million to 10.9 million 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, DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
82,305
Positive
84%
Steam appid
335300
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.04.7M to 10.9M
units (median: 7.8M)
≈ $107.2M to $250.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$40 | +15 |
| positive_84% | 0 |
| final NB | 95 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin at roughly 4.7 million to 10.9 million copies, with a median around 7.8 million, derived from its 82,305 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $178.6M 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
90d · low $21.93Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $21.93 to $39.99, averaging $37.22 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $21.93 on 2026-03-23.
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Where to buy
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- Humble Store$39.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$41.65 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Souls-likeDark FantasyRPGDifficultActionThird PersonAtmosphericAction RPGCharacter CustomizationCo-opMultiplayerAdventureFantasyMedievalDarkSingleplayerLore-RichStory RichPvPRemake
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin sold?
- indielist estimates DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin has sold between 4,691,385 and 10,946,565 units (median 7,818,975), derived from its 82,305 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin?
- DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin was developed by FromSoftware, Inc. and published by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment.
- When was DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin released?
- DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin have on Steam?
- DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin has 82,305 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, FromSoftware, Inc.'s other releases and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin 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 DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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.