How much revenue did Midnight Heist make?

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

How many copies did Midnight Heist sell?

Q: How many copies did Midnight Heist sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 522 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $36k–$96k after Steam's cut $65k–$147k before the cut; from 522 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 Midnight Heist out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Midnight Heist's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.7M

best case 12.1M (DOOM)

Games like Midnight Heist

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–1.7M copies

≈ $8.1M–$19.6M after Steam's cut

from ~28k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 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: DOOM at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $50.6M–$136.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (4 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Gore, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Shooter + Multiplayer + FPS; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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DOOM 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M 7.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.6M–$136.0M after Steam's cut $92.0M–$209.3M before the cut	$19.99	221k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
Thief 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.6M before the cut	$19.99	24k reviews Mostly Positive	StealthAction
Pony Island 2016	Est. copies ≈ 752k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before the cut	$4.99	18k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleIndie
Crime Scene Cleaner 2024	Est. copies ≈ 846k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.0M–$18.8M after Steam's cut $12.7M–$28.9M before the cut	$29.99	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationCrime
Prey 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut $28.1M–$63.9M before the cut	$29.99	54k reviews Very Positive	Sci-fiImmersive Sim
Hacknet 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.5M–$9.4M after Steam's cut $6.4M–$14.5M before the cut	$9.99	26k reviews Very Positive	HackingSimulation
The Evil Within 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.7M–$31.5M after Steam's cut $21.3M–$48.4M before the cut	$39.99	31k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
SIMULACRA 3 2022	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$103k before the cut	$9.99	365 reviews Mixed	Immersive SimInteractive Fiction