How much revenue did The Nightmare Inside make?

The Nightmare Inside is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Nightmare Inside sell?

Q: How many copies did The Nightmare Inside sell?

620 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; from 25 reviews (Mostly 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 The Nightmare Inside and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Nightmare Inside's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–16k

best case 108k (In Verbis Virtus)

Games like The Nightmare Inside

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–16k copies

≈ $26k–$46k after Steam's cut

from ~212 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: In Verbis Virtus at ≈ 82k–134k copies, ≈ $452k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 38 reviews in their first month; the range was 15 to 106.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Voice Control + Magic, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2022, 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 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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In Verbis Virtus 2015	Est. copies ≈ 82k–134k 7.9x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $452k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $822k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Voice ControlMagic
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