How much revenue did NoRoY make?

$938–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NoRoY sell?

Q: How many copies did NoRoY sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 46 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $938–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 46 reviews (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 NoRoY and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NoRoY's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 157k–1.9M

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like NoRoY

A typical game among these

≈ 157k–1.9M copies

≈ $688k–$24.3M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 399 reviews in their first month; the range was 205 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Precision Platformer (8 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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