How much revenue did When The Night Comes make?

$29k–$79k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did When The Night Comes sell?

Q: How many copies did When The Night Comes sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 332 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $29k–$79k after Steam's cut $53k–$122k before Steam's cut; from 332 reviews (Very 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 When The Night Comes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including When The Night Comes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 487k–572k

best case 2.4M (UNO)

Games like When The Night Comes

A typical game among these

≈ 487k–572k copies

≈ $1.6M–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 721 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dating Sim (5 of 8) and LGBTQ+ (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Tabletop, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Card Game + Strategy + Tabletop; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, and none of them 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 43 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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