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How many copies did Super Ninja Miner sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 620–1k
$851–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut
from 25 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 Super Ninja Miner and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Super Ninja Miner's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 297k–740k
best case 5.9M (Celeste)
Games like Super Ninja Miner

A typical game among these

≈ 297k–740k copies

≈ $2.1M–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 454 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Platformer (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Platformer, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Level Editor + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2009 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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Est. copies
≈ 629k–1.0M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$14.99
10k reviews
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≈ 4.1M–6.6M
7.5x vs typical
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Celeste
2018
Est. copies
≈ 4.5M–7.4M
15x vs typical
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut $45.3M–$103.1M before Steam's cut
$19.99
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The Pedestrian
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