How much revenue did DYING UNDER NIGHTFALL make?

$123–$330 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DYING UNDER NIGHTFALL sell?

Q: How many copies did DYING UNDER NIGHTFALL sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $123–$330 after Steam's cut $223–$507 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 DYING UNDER NIGHTFALL and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DYING UNDER NIGHTFALL's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 211k–349k

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like DYING UNDER NIGHTFALL

A typical game among these

≈ 211k–349k copies

≈ $1.8M–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 454 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and Female Protagonist (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Precision Platformer + Difficult + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
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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Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut $45.3M–$103.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	149k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult
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