How much revenue did Night Mysteries: The Amphora Prisoner make?

$25k–$66k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Night Mysteries: The Amphora Prisoner sell?

Q: How many copies did Night Mysteries: The Amphora Prisoner sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 167 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $25k–$66k after Steam's cut $45k–$102k before the cut; from 167 reviews (Mixed)

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 Mysteries: The Amphora Prisoner out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Night Mysteries: The Amphora Prisoner's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–13k

best case 125k (SchoolBoy Runaway)

Games like Night Mysteries: The Amphora Prisoner

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–13k copies

≈ $5k–$32k after Steam's cut

from ~155 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.

Best case: SchoolBoy Runaway at ≈ 95k–154k copies, ≈ $52k–$140k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 34 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 234.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Simulation, priced around $2.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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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