How much revenue did Nodes Escape make?

$8k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nodes Escape sell?

Q: How many copies did Nodes Escape sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 556 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $8k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before Steam's cut; from 556 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 Nodes Escape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nodes Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–62k

best case 114k (CaseCracker)

Games like Nodes Escape

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–62k copies

≈ $51k–$182k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: CaseCracker at ≈ 87k–141k copies, ≈ $238k–$639k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 284 reviews in their first month; the range was 34 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Word Game (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Text-Based + Detective, priced around $10.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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