How much revenue did The Nightmare Journey make?

$217–$584 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Nightmare Journey sell?

Q: How many copies did The Nightmare Journey sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $217–$584 after Steam's cut $395–$898 before the cut; from 16 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 The Nightmare Journey out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Nightmare Journey's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–116k

best case 5.3M (Little Nightmares)

Games like The Nightmare Journey

The middle of these games

≈ 24k–116k copies

≈ $93k–$473k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Little Nightmares at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $22.0M–$59.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 321 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 170 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle-Platformer (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Indie + Atmospheric + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 61 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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Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M 77x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.0M–$59.2M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.1M before the cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
当火车鸣笛三秒 2021	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $33k–$89k after Steam's cut $60k–$137k before the cut	$9.99	485 reviews Mostly Positive	Interactive FictionWord Game
Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love 2022	Est. copies ≈ 25k–40k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $68k–$182k after Steam's cut $123k–$281k before the cut	$9.99	996 reviews Very Positive	ExplorationPuzzle-Platformer
Lakeview Cabin Collection 2015	Est. copies ≈ 95k–154k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $260k–$699k after Steam's cut $472k–$1.1M before the cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Survival Horror2D Platformer
Laughing to Die 2024	Est. copies ≈ 81k–132k 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $112k–$300k after Steam's cut $203k–$462k before the cut	$4.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureCasual
DARQ: Complete Edition 2019	Est. copies ≈ 121k–196k 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $664k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	HorrorDark
YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY- 2018	Est. copies ≈ 46k–75k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $253k–$680k after Steam's cut $460k–$1.0M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mixed	ExplorationPuzzle-Platformer
Reflection of Mine 2017	Est. copies ≈ 9k–14k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before the cut	$8.99	248 reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorPuzzle-Platformer