How much revenue did Many Nights a Whisper make?

$15k–$40k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Many Nights a Whisper sell?

Q: How many copies did Many Nights a Whisper sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 731 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$62k before the cut; from 731 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 Many Nights a Whisper out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Many Nights a Whisper's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 646k–2.6M

best case 7.2M (To the Moon)

Games like Many Nights a Whisper

The middle of these games

≈ 646k–2.6M copies

≈ $4.0M–$19.1M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: To the Moon at ≈ 5.5M–8.9M copies, ≈ $15.0M–$40.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Short (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Emotional, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2019, 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 36 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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