How much revenue did Samurai Ninja Wars make?

$306–$824 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Samurai Ninja Wars sell?

Q: How many copies did Samurai Ninja Wars sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $306–$824 after Steam's cut $556–$1k before Steam's cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Only 9 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Samurai Ninja Wars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Samurai Ninja Wars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–134k

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Samurai Ninja Wars

A typical game among these

≈ 63k–134k copies

≈ $287k–$604k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

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 632 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Precision Platformer (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Precision Platformer, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, and 3 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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