How much revenue did Trader of the Night make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Trader of the Night sell?

Q: How many copies did Trader of the Night sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 21 reviews (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 Trader of the Night and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Trader of the Night's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 916k–2.2M

best case 3.3M (Supermarket Together)

Games like Trader of the Night

A typical game among these

≈ 916k–2.2M copies

≈ $5.5M–$22.3M after Steam's cut

from ~41k 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.

Best case: Supermarket Together at ≈ 2.5M–4.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 14k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Economy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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