How much revenue did Night Book make?

$62k–$166k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Night Book sell?

Q: How many copies did Night Book sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 605 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $62k–$166k after Steam's cut $112k–$256k before the cut; from 605 reviews (Mixed)

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 Night Book out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Night Book's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 35k–45k

best case 116k (The Complex)

Games like Night Book

The middle of these games

≈ 35k–45k copies

≈ $184k–$367k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Complex at ≈ 88k–143k copies, ≈ $364k–$978k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 367 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 137 to 886.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FMV (7 of 8) and Choices Matter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FMV + Choices Matter, priced around $15.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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