How many copies did NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE sell?

561k to 912k copies, based on its 23k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE make?

NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 561k–912k; from 23k 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 NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–10.6M

best case 27.0M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE

A typical game among these

≈ 3.5M–10.6M copies

≈ $21.0M–$156.0M after Steam's cut

from ~146k 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: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.5M–33.4M copies, ≈ $141.2M–$379.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automobile Sim (8 of 8) and Driving (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2025, 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 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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