How much revenue did Path of the Midnight Sun make?

$36k–$96k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Path of the Midnight Sun sell?

Q: How many copies did Path of the Midnight Sun sell?

6k to 11k copies, based on its 261 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–11k; $36k–$96k after Steam's cut $65k–$147k before the cut; from 261 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 Path of the Midnight Sun out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Path of the Midnight Sun's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163k–227k

best case 655k (The Test)

Games like Path of the Midnight Sun

The middle of these games

≈ 163k–227k copies

≈ $2.6M–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: The Test at ≈ 499k–811k copies, ≈ $273k–$734k 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 913 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and JRPG (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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