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How many copies did Night Lights sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–4k
$3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut
from 79 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 Night Lights out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Night Lights's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–2.6M
best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)
Games like Night Lights

The middle of these games

≈ 15k–2.6M copies

≈ $29k–$17.6M after Steam's cut

from ~601 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.7M–58.0M copies, ≈ $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 106 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12 to 11k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (6 of 8) and Precision Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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 70 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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