How much revenue did Carpathian Night Starring Bela Lugosi make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Carpathian Night Starring Bela Lugosi sell?

Q: How many copies did Carpathian Night Starring Bela Lugosi sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 97 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$46k before Steam's cut; from 97 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 Carpathian Night Starring Bela Lugosi and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Carpathian Night Starring Bela Lugosi's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–40k

best case 82k (Aeruta)

Games like Carpathian Night Starring Bela Lugosi

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–40k copies

≈ $23k–$199k after Steam's cut

from ~754 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Aeruta at ≈ 63k–102k copies, ≈ $345k–$927k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 135 reviews in their first month; the range was 37 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (4 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Cooking, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 1 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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