How much revenue did Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside make?

$145k–$390k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside sell?

Q: How many copies did Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside sell?

75k to 123k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 75k–123k; $145k–$390k after Steam's cut $264k–$600k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 176k–351k

best case 296k (Return to Monkey Island)

Games like Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside

The middle of these games

≈ 176k–351k copies

≈ $889k–$2.4M 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: Return to Monkey Island at ≈ 225k–366k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Point & Click (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Point & Click + Comedy, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2022, and none of them 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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