How much revenue did Alan Wake's American Nightmare make?

$1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alan Wake's American Nightmare sell?

Q: How many copies did Alan Wake's American Nightmare sell?

683k to 1.1M copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 683k–1.1M; $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.0M before the cut; from 11k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Alan Wake's American Nightmare out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Alan Wake's American Nightmare's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29.0M–52.3M

best case 87.7M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Alan Wake's American Nightmare

The middle of these games

≈ 29.0M–52.3M copies

≈ $148.3M–$242.0M after Steam's cut

from ~848k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 66.8M–108.6M copies, ≈ $183.6M–$493.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (3 of 4) and Co-op (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2018, 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 38 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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