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How many copies did The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 202–328
$499–$1k after Steam's cut $908–$2k before Steam's cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)
Only 7 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 370k–733k
best case 1.6M (Volcano Princess)
Games like The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool

A typical game among these

≈ 370k–733k copies

≈ $2.1M–$5.1M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Volcano Princess at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 621 to 12k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Female Protagonist (6 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Life Sim + Multiple Endings, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Life Sim + Dating Sim + Multiple Endings; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 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 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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