How much revenue did They Don't Sleep make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did They Don't Sleep sell?

Q: How many copies did They Don't Sleep sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 218 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut; from 218 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 They Don't Sleep and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including They Don't Sleep's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 36k–4.2M

best case 11.5M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like They Don't Sleep

A typical game among these

≈ 36k–4.2M copies

≈ $1.1M–$9.8M after Steam's cut

from ~30k 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: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.8M–14.2M copies, ≈ $60.2M–$161.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2026, and 2 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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