How much revenue did Nebulas Lasso make?

$72–$192 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nebulas Lasso sell?

Q: How many copies did Nebulas Lasso sell?

29 to 47 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29–47; $72–$192 after Steam's cut $130–$296 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review 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 Nebulas Lasso and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nebulas Lasso's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–317k

best case 1.7M (Besiege)

Games like Nebulas Lasso

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–317k copies

≈ $4k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~831 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Besiege at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 337 reviews in their first month; the range was 26 to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shoot 'Em Up (7 of 8) and Twin Stick Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sandbox, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2021, 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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