How much revenue did Vigil: The Longest Night make?

$548k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vigil: The Longest Night sell?

Q: How many copies did Vigil: The Longest Night sell?

91k to 147k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 91k–147k; $548k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $997k–$2.3M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Vigil: The Longest Night and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vigil: The Longest Night's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 215k–1.5M

best case 25.6M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Vigil: The Longest Night

A typical game among these

≈ 215k–1.5M copies

≈ $1.9M–$15.0M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.5M–31.6M copies, ≈ $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Souls-like (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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Salt and Sanctuary 2016	Est. copies ≈ 915k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.2M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.7M before Steam's cut	$17.99	22k reviews Very Positive	Souls-like Metroidvania
Death's Gambit: Afterlife 2018	Est. copies ≈ 171k–278k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $939k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Souls-like Metroidvania
Afterimage 2023	Est. copies ≈ 260k–423k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	10k reviews Mostly Positive	MetroidvaniaFemale Protagonist
Hollow Knight 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.5M–31.6M 39x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.3M–$215.8M after Steam's cut $145.9M–$332.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	566k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Blasphemous 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $18.8M–$50.7M after Steam's cut $34.3M–$78.0M before Steam's cut	$34.99	68k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaPixel Graphics
The Last Faith 2023	Est. copies ≈ 141k–229k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before Steam's cut	$27.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
Minoria 2019	Est. copies ≈ 76k–124k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $420k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $764k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	ActionMetroidvania
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