How much revenue did Dark Nights with Poe and Munro make?

$44k–$118k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dark Nights with Poe and Munro sell?

Q: How many copies did Dark Nights with Poe and Munro sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 495 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $44k–$118k after Steam's cut $80k–$181k before Steam's cut; from 495 reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Dark Nights with Poe and Munro and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dark Nights with Poe and Munro's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–44k

best case 65k (IMMORTALITY)

Games like Dark Nights with Poe and Munro

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–44k copies

≈ $103k–$326k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: IMMORTALITY at ≈ 50k–81k copies, ≈ $274k–$736k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 245 reviews in their first month; the range was 74 to 658.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and FMV (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hidden Object + Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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