How much revenue did Noobs Want to Live make?

$170k–$456k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Noobs Want to Live sell?

Q: How many copies did Noobs Want to Live sell?

124k to 201k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124k–201k; $170k–$456k after Steam's cut $308k–$701k before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Noobs Want to Live and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Noobs Want to Live's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–4.2M

best case 8.7M (Vampire Survivors)

Games like Noobs Want to Live

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–4.2M copies

≈ $6.0M–$13.8M after Steam's cut

from ~48k 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.

Best case: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Bullet Hell (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
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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