How much revenue did Negative Nancy make?

$8k–$22k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Negative Nancy sell?

Q: How many copies did Negative Nancy sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 119 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$34k before Steam's cut; from 119 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 Negative Nancy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Negative Nancy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 347k–851k

best case 1.3M (The Coffin of Andy and Leyley)

Games like Negative Nancy

A typical game among these

≈ 347k–851k copies

≈ $2.7M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: The Coffin of Andy and Leyley at ≈ 982k–1.6M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 229 reviews in their first month; the range was 84 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choices Matter (8 of 8) and Story Rich (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological + Dark Comedy, priced around $12.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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