How much revenue did Night Lights make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Night Lights sell?

Q: How many copies did Night Lights sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 78 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 78 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 Lights and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Night Lights's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–2.6M

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Night Lights

A typical game among these

≈ 15k–2.6M copies

≈ $29k–$17.9M after Steam's cut

from ~602 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 105 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 2D Platformer (6 of 8) and Precision Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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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SANABI 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 75x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.6M–$12.4M after Steam's cut $8.4M–$19.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	45k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsStory Rich
Schein 2014	Est. copies ≈ 18k–30k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $25k–$68k after Steam's cut $46k–$105k before Steam's cut	$4.99	330 reviews Mostly Positive	Precision PlatformerSide Scroller
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Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 36.2M–58.9M 1076x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut $90.4M–$205.7M before Steam's cut	$4.99	647k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic