How much revenue did Night Book make?

$62k–$166k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Night Book sell?

Q: How many copies did Night Book sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 605 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $62k–$166k after Steam's cut $112k–$256k before Steam's cut; from 605 reviews (Mixed)

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 Night Book and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Night Book's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 35k–45k

best case 116k (The Complex)

Games like Night Book

A typical game among these

≈ 35k–45k copies

≈ $184k–$368k 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Complex at ≈ 89k–144k copies, ≈ $365k–$982k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 367 reviews in their first month; the range was 137 to 881.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FMV (7 of 8) and Choices Matter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FMV + Choices Matter, priced around $15.
When they shipped: Only 3 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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