How much revenue did The Midnight Walk make?

$588k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Midnight Walk sell?

Q: How many copies did The Midnight Walk sell?

71k to 116k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 71k–116k; $588k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut; from 3k 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 The Midnight Walk out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Midnight Walk's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.6M

best case 8.8M (Darkest Dungeon®)

Games like The Midnight Walk

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–1.6M copies

≈ $7.3M–$10.3M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Dark (3 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: Darkest Dungeon® at ≈ 6.7M–10.9M copies, ≈ $46.2M–$124.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark (3 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Team-Based, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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Salt and Sanctuary 2016	Est. copies ≈ 910k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.6M before the cut	$17.99	22k reviews Very Positive	Souls-like Metroidvania
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.6M 5.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $37.6M–$101.1M after Steam's cut $68.4M–$155.6M before the cut	$39.99	138k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorTeam-Based
Hatred 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.8M before the cut	$5.99	30k reviews Very Positive	GoreViolent
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Fran Bow 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.6M–$12.4M after Steam's cut $8.4M–$19.1M before the cut	$14.99	23k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Story Rich
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin 2015	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M 5.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $70.7M–$190.0M after Steam's cut $128.5M–$292.3M before the cut	$39.99	132k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.7M–$58.3M after Steam's cut $39.5M–$89.8M before the cut	$29.99	76k reviews Very Positive	AtmosphericPsychological
Darkest Dungeon® 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.7M–10.9M 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $46.2M–$124.2M after Steam's cut $84.0M–$191.0M before the cut	$24.99	162k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based CombatDark Fantasy