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How many copies did Vigil: The Longest Night sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 90k–146k
$544k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $989k–$2.2M before the cut
from 4k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 213k–1.5M
best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)
Games like Vigil: The Longest Night

The middle of these games

≈ 213k–1.5M copies

≈ $1.9M–$12.3M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 10k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Souls-like (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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