How much revenue did Ninja Legends make?

$9k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ninja Legends sell?

Q: How many copies did Ninja Legends sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 54 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $16k–$35k before Steam's cut; from 54 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Ninja Legends and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ninja Legends's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 810k–1.6M

best case 2.8M (SteamVR)

Games like Ninja Legends

A typical game among these

≈ 810k–1.6M copies

≈ $5.5M–$15.2M after Steam's cut

from ~31k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: SteamVR at ≈ 2.2M–3.5M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (6 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Software.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 of the 7 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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