How much revenue did NAIR make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NAIR sell?

Q: How many copies did NAIR sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 89 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 89 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 NAIR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NAIR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–790k

best case 3.1M (DRAGON BALL FighterZ)

Games like NAIR

A typical game among these

≈ 31k–790k copies

≈ $380k–$18.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: DRAGON BALL FighterZ at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $38.6M–$103.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 119 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fighting (8 of 8) and 2D Fighter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + Anime, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 38 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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