How much revenue did NINJA GAIDEN Σ [NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection] make?

$809k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NINJA GAIDEN Σ [NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection] sell?

Q: How many copies did NINJA GAIDEN Σ [NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection] sell?

74k to 120k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74k–120k; $809k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 NINJA GAIDEN Σ [NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection] and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NINJA GAIDEN Σ [NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection]'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.9M–6.1M

best case 6.6M (Lost Ark)

Games like NINJA GAIDEN Σ [NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection]

A typical game among these

≈ 4.9M–6.1M copies

≈ $52.1M–$88.6M after Steam's cut

from ~133k 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 Hack and Slash (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: Lost Ark at ≈ 5.0M–8.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 86k reviews in their first month; the range was 36k to 128k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (4 of 8) and Third Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MMORPG + Action RPG.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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 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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Devil May Cry 5 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.9M–8.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $40.6M–$109.2M after Steam's cut $73.9M–$168.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	171k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionHack and Slash
Lost Ark 2022	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.2M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	203k reviews Mostly Positive	MMORPGFree to Play
Last Epoch 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $28.3M–$76.0M after Steam's cut $51.4M–$116.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	118k reviews Mostly Positive	Action RPGLoot
God of War 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4.6M–7.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $63.1M–$169.6M after Steam's cut $114.7M–$260.9M before Steam's cut	$49.99	185k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionSingleplayer
Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $55.4M–$149.1M after Steam's cut $100.8M–$229.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	117k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
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Warhammer: Vermintide 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $37.0M–$99.6M after Steam's cut $67.3M–$153.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	148k reviews Very Positive	Co-opDark Fantasy
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