How many copies did Night in Riverager sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 236 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Night in Riverager make?

Night in Riverager is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Night in Riverager?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 6k–10k; from 236 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 Night in Riverager and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Night in Riverager's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 520k–861k

best case 5.3M (Little Nightmares)

Games like Night in Riverager

A typical game among these

≈ 520k–861k copies

≈ $1.3M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Dark (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: Little Nightmares at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $22.1M–$59.3M 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 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dark (4 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2.5D + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 79 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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INSIDE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M 6.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut $39.7M–$90.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2.5DPuzzle-Platformer
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M 9.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Oxenfree 2016	Est. copies ≈ 504k–820k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Story RichChoices Matter
Little Nightmares II 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.0M–$32.3M after Steam's cut $21.8M–$49.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	59k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAdventure
Seen 2019	Est. copies ≈ 288k–467k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $78k–$210k after Steam's cut $142k–$324k before Steam's cut	$0.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessIndie
My Singing Monsters 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	50k reviews Very Positive	Creature CollectorSimulation
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Deadlight 2012	Est. copies ≈ 808k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$9.0M after Steam's cut $6.1M–$13.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	13k reviews Mostly Positive	ZombiesPlatformer