How much revenue did Pixel Ninja make?

$218–$585 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pixel Ninja sell?

Q: How many copies did Pixel Ninja sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $218–$585 after Steam's cut $396–$900 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 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 Pixel Ninja and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel Ninja's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 480–749

best case 16k (Shing!)

Games like Pixel Ninja

A typical game among these

≈ 480–749 copies

≈ $1k–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~22 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Shing! at ≈ 12k–20k copies, ≈ $66k–$177k 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 12 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 45.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and 2D Fighter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + Beat 'em up, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Beat 'em up + Hack and Slash + Side Scroller; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 36 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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