How much revenue did The Town of Light make?

$611k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Town of Light sell?

Q: How many copies did The Town of Light sell?

117k to 190k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 117k–190k; $611k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly 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 Town of Light out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Town of Light's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66k–243k

best case 421k (Yume Nikki)

Games like The Town of Light

The middle of these games

≈ 66k–243k copies

≈ $169k–$1.0M 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Yume Nikki at ≈ 320k–521k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 617 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RPGMaker + Psychological Horror.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 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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