How much revenue did Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe make?

$55k–$147k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe sell?

Q: How many copies did Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 803 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $55k–$147k after Steam's cut $99k–$226k before Steam's cut; from 803 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–60k

best case 312k (STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®)

Games like Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–60k copies

≈ $20k–$244k after Steam's cut

from ~828 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® at ≈ 238k–387k copies, ≈ $981k–$2.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (8 of 8) and Side Scroller (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Metroidvania, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 1 of the 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 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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