How much revenue did Night Raider make?

$80k–$216k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Night Raider sell?

Q: How many copies did Night Raider sell?

49k to 79k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–79k; $80k–$216k after Steam's cut $146k–$332k before the cut; from 2k 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 Night Raider out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Night Raider's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–105k

best case 946k (20 Minutes Till Dawn)

Games like Night Raider

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–105k copies

≈ $4k–$632k after Steam's cut

from ~263 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 20 Minutes Till Dawn at ≈ 720k–1.2M copies, ≈ $989k–$2.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 305 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Top-Down Shooter (5 of 8) and Gun Customization (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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