How much revenue did One Night: Burlesque make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did One Night: Burlesque sell?

Q: How many copies did One Night: Burlesque sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $6k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 40 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 One Night: Burlesque and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including One Night: Burlesque's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 285–2k

best case 11k (Vaudeville)

Games like One Night: Burlesque

A typical game among these

≈ 285–2k copies

≈ $557–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~23 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Crime (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Vaudeville at ≈ 8k–14k copies, ≈ $46k–$124k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 305.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Crime (4 of 8) and Detective (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Artificial Intelligence + Conversation, priced around $20.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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