How much revenue did Nine Lives Ninja: Explore! make?

$189–$508 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nine Lives Ninja: Explore! sell?

Q: How many copies did Nine Lives Ninja: Explore! sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $189–$508 after Steam's cut $344–$782 before Steam's cut; from 28 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 Nine Lives Ninja: Explore! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nine Lives Ninja: Explore!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 534k–940k

best case 3.9M (Ori and the Blind Forest)

Games like Nine Lives Ninja: Explore!

A typical game among these

≈ 534k–940k copies

≈ $2.7M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Ori and the Blind Forest at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (7 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Metroidvania.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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The Swapper 2013	Est. copies ≈ 480k–780k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	8k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleSci-fi
Ori and the Blind Forest 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackAtmospheric
Out There Somewhere 2016	Est. copies ≈ 288k–468k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $791k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	7k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerPixel Graphics
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ANIMAL WELL 2024	Est. copies ≈ 612k–995k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MetroidvaniaExploration