How much revenue did Nightwatch: Nightmare Creatures make?

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

How many copies did Nightwatch: Nightmare Creatures sell?

Q: How many copies did Nightwatch: Nightmare Creatures sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 32 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Nightwatch: Nightmare Creatures and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nightwatch: Nightmare Creatures's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–63k

best case 4.6M (Fallout 76)

Games like Nightwatch: Nightmare Creatures

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–63k copies

≈ $26k–$141k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Horror (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: Fallout 76 at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $38.4M–$103.3M 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 355 reviews in their first month; the range was 34 to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (4 of 8) and Capitalism (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Post-apocalyptic + Base-Building + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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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