How much revenue did Living the Nightmare make?

$408–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Living the Nightmare sell?

Q: How many copies did Living the Nightmare sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before Steam's cut; from 20 reviews (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 Living the Nightmare and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Living the Nightmare's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 102k–5.2M

best case 31.8M (Dying Light)

Games like Living the Nightmare

A typical game among these

≈ 102k–5.2M copies

≈ $891k–$76.0M after Steam's cut

from ~17k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Dying Light at ≈ 24.2M–39.3M copies, ≈ $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 23 to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Zombies (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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