How much revenue did Ninja Village make?

$36k–$97k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ninja Village sell?

Q: How many copies did Ninja Village sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 590 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $36k–$97k after Steam's cut $66k–$150k before Steam's cut; from 590 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 Village and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ninja Village's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–1.1M

best case 9.9M (RimWorld)

Games like Ninja Village

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–1.1M copies

≈ $15k–$11.1M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Base-Building (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: RimWorld at ≈ 7.6M–12.3M copies, ≈ $72.7M–$195.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 217 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (4 of 8) and City Builder (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $35.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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