How much revenue did Nightshade/百花百狼 make?

$262k–$706k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nightshade/百花百狼 sell?

Q: How many copies did Nightshade/百花百狼 sell?

27k to 44k copies, based on its 793 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–44k; $262k–$706k after Steam's cut $477k–$1.1M before the cut; from 793 reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Nightshade/百花百狼 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nightshade/百花百狼's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 117k–134k

best case 557k (Hatoful Boyfriend)

Games like Nightshade/百花百狼

The middle of these games

≈ 117k–134k copies

≈ $430k–$477k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Hatoful Boyfriend at ≈ 424k–690k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (8 of 8) and Otome (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Otome + Visual Novel, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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Hatoful Boyfriend 2014	Est. copies ≈ 424k–690k 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before the cut	$9.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelDating Sim
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