How much revenue did No Rest for the Wicked make?

$22.4M–$60.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did No Rest for the Wicked sell?

Q: How many copies did No Rest for the Wicked sell?

2.0M to 3.3M copies, based on its 82k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.0M–3.3M; $22.4M–$60.3M after Steam's cut $40.8M–$92.8M before Steam's cut; from 82k reviews (Mostly 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 No Rest for the Wicked and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including No Rest for the Wicked's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 208k–1.2M

best case 2.8M (STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™)

Games like No Rest for the Wicked

A typical game among these

≈ 208k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.9M–$11.5M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ at ≈ 2.1M–3.5M copies, ≈ $41.3M–$111.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Third Person, priced around $70.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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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Stoneshard 2020	Est. copies ≈ 886k–1.4M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.1M–$16.4M after Steam's cut $11.1M–$25.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	36k reviews Mostly Positive	RPGRogue-like
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