How much revenue did 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL make?

$8k–$21k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL sell?

Q: How many copies did 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 576 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$32k before the cut; from 576 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 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–10k

best case 489k (Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms)

Games like 5 NIGHTS AT SHALUN 4: SCHOOL

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–10k copies

≈ $6k–$26k after Steam's cut

from ~181 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Idler (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: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms at ≈ 373k–606k copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 81 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 5k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeons & Dragons + Idler. The breakout hits carry Dungeons & Dragons + Free to Play + Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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