How many copies did Blooming Nightshade sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 232 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Blooming Nightshade make?

Blooming Nightshade is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Blooming Nightshade?

Estimated owners: ≈ 7k–11k; from 232 reviews (Very 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 Blooming Nightshade out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Blooming Nightshade's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26.4M–44.4M

best case 98.8M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Blooming Nightshade

The middle of these games

≈ 26.4M–44.4M copies

≈ $179.5M–$322.2M after Steam's cut

from ~573k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Open World (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 75.3M–122.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (3 of 8) and Exploration (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2018, 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 38 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).

Similar games

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DARK SOULS™ III 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18.3M–29.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $301.6M–$810.8M after Steam's cut $548.3M–$1247.4M before the cut	$59.99	439k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 75.3M–122.4M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.5M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Stardew Valley 2016	Est. copies ≈ 43.0M–69.9M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $177.4M–$476.9M after Steam's cut $322.5M–$733.6M before the cut	$14.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Farming SimPixel Graphics
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.6M–25.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $172.0M–$462.5M after Steam's cut $312.8M–$711.6M before the cut	$39.99	376k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Fallout 4 2015	Est. copies ≈ 20.9M–34.0M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.9M–$308.8M after Steam's cut $208.9M–$475.1M before the cut	$19.99	428k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldPost-apocalyptic
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.4M–47.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut $147.0M–$334.4M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle