How much revenue did 20 Minutes Till Dawn make?

$989k–$2.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 20 Minutes Till Dawn sell?

Q: How many copies did 20 Minutes Till Dawn sell?

720k to 1.2M copies, based on its 29k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 720k–1.2M; $989k–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before the cut; from 29k 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 20 Minutes Till Dawn out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 20 Minutes Till Dawn's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 75k–150k

best case 3.8M (Brotato)

Games like 20 Minutes Till Dawn

The middle of these games

≈ 75k–150k copies

≈ $163k–$365k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Best case: Brotato at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $4.0M–$10.8M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 409 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Rogue-like + Difficult + Procedural Generation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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 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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