How much revenue did Unending Dusk make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Unending Dusk sell?

Q: How many copies did Unending Dusk sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 68 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut; from 68 reviews (Mixed)

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 Unending Dusk and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unending Dusk's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.2M–25.4M

best case 39.5M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Unending Dusk

A typical game among these

≈ 7.2M–25.4M copies

≈ $67.7M–$97.5M after Steam's cut

from ~238k 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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.1M–48.9M copies, ≈ $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 115k reviews in their first month; the range was 42k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (6 of 8) and Hack and Slash (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 2 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 79 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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Grim Dawn 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.6M–7.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $31.4M–$84.5M after Steam's cut $57.2M–$130.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	110k reviews Very Positive	Action RPGHack and Slash
Black Myth: Wukong 2024	Est. copies ≈ 30.1M–48.9M 5.1x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut $902.2M–$2052.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	1.2M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MythologyAction RPG
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