How much revenue did 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL make?

$8k–$22k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL sell?

Q: How many copies did 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 595 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$33k before Steam's cut; from 595 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 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–10k

best case 490k (Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms)

Games like 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–10k copies

≈ $6k–$26k after Steam's cut

from ~182 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Idler (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: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms at ≈ 374k–607k copies. 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 81 reviews in their first month; the range was 10 to 5k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeons & Dragons + Idler. The breakout hits carry Dungeons & Dragons + Free to Play + Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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