How much revenue did Seven Nights Ghost make?

$53k–$142k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Seven Nights Ghost sell?

Q: How many copies did Seven Nights Ghost sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 644 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $53k–$142k after Steam's cut $96k–$218k before Steam's cut; from 644 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 Seven Nights Ghost and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Seven Nights Ghost's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 36k–255k

best case 1.8M (Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair)

Games like Seven Nights Ghost

A typical game among these

≈ 36k–255k copies

≈ $85k–$838k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair at ≈ 1.4M–2.2M copies, ≈ $7.5M–$20.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 196 reviews in their first month; the range was 73 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (5 of 8) and Dark Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Detective, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.2M 22x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.3M after Steam's cut $13.7M–$31.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeDetective
Comedy Night 2017	Est. copies ≈ 320k–519k 6.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $439k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $798k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$4.99	9k reviews Mostly Positive	CasualComedy
Purrfect Apawcalypse: Love at Furst Bite 2021	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $31k–$84k after Steam's cut $57k–$129k before Steam's cut	$4.99	914 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureVisual Novel
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp 2020	Est. copies ≈ 152k–248k 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $502k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $913k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$11.99	6k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Dating SimLGBTQ+
Chair F*cking Simulator 2020	Est. copies ≈ 28k–45k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before Steam's cut	$1.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDating Sim
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