How much revenue did Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside make?

$146k–$391k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside sell?

Q: How many copies did Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside sell?

76k to 123k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 76k–123k; $146k–$391k after Steam's cut $265k–$602k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 177k–352k

best case 297k (Return to Monkey Island)

Games like Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside

A typical game among these

≈ 177k–352k copies

≈ $892k–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Return to Monkey Island at ≈ 226k–367k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Point & Click (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Point & Click + Comedy, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2022, and none of them 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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