How much revenue did Marvel's Midnight Suns make?

$10.0M–$27.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Marvel's Midnight Suns sell?

Q: How many copies did Marvel's Midnight Suns sell?

609k to 990k copies, based on its 25k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 609k–990k; $10.0M–$27.0M after Steam's cut $18.3M–$41.6M before Steam's cut; from 25k 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 Marvel's Midnight Suns and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Marvel's Midnight Suns's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 823k–2.1M

best case 3.4M (Dota Underlords)

Games like Marvel's Midnight Suns

A typical game among these

≈ 823k–2.1M copies

≈ $6.7M–$7.1M after Steam's cut

from ~34k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Card Battler (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: Dota Underlords at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Battler (4 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 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 36 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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Gloomhaven 2021	Est. copies ≈ 400k–650k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	16k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpDark Fantasy
Monster Train 2020	Est. copies ≈ 570k–927k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.9M–$10.5M after Steam's cut $7.1M–$16.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	23k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Card BattlerRogue-lite
Loop Hero 2021	Est. copies ≈ 907k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	37k reviews Very Positive	TacticalRogue-like
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Dota Underlords 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	91k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStrategy
Minion Masters 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	65k reviews Very Positive	PvETrading Card Game
Helmetman 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $20k–$53k after Steam's cut $36k–$82k before Steam's cut	$19.99	145 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessRoguelike Deckbuilder
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