How much revenue did Always The Same Nightmare make?

$491–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Always The Same Nightmare sell?

Q: How many copies did Always The Same Nightmare sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $491–$1k after Steam's cut $893–$2k before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Always The Same Nightmare and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Always The Same Nightmare's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 540k–743k

best case 716k (Spelunky 2)

Games like Always The Same Nightmare

A typical game among these

≈ 540k–743k copies

≈ $3.4M–$5.0M 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.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Platformer (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: Spelunky 2 at ≈ 545k–886k copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 4k reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (4 of 8) and Side Scroller (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + 2D Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, 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 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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