How much revenue did Night Raider make?

$81k–$217k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Night Raider sell?

Q: How many copies did Night Raider sell?

49k to 80k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–80k; $81k–$217k after Steam's cut $147k–$333k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Raider and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Night Raider's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–105k

best case 950k (20 Minutes Till Dawn)

Games like Night Raider

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–105k copies

≈ $4k–$642k after Steam's cut

from ~265 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 20 Minutes Till Dawn at ≈ 724k–1.2M copies, ≈ $993k–$2.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 305 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Top-Down Shooter (5 of 8) and Gun Customization (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 61 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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CyberCorp 2025	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $45k–$121k after Steam's cut $82k–$186k before Steam's cut	$14.99	439 reviews Mostly Positive	Top-Down ShooterTwin Stick Shooter
20 Minutes Till Dawn 2023	Est. copies ≈ 724k–1.2M 110x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $993k–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before Steam's cut	$4.99	29k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
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