How much revenue did SHOOPER NOVA make?

$31k–$85k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SHOOPER NOVA sell?

Q: How many copies did SHOOPER NOVA sell?

16k to 27k copies, based on its 660 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–27k; $31k–$85k after Steam's cut $57k–$130k before the cut; from 660 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left SHOOPER NOVA out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SHOOPER NOVA's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–45k

best case 49k (Necrosmith 2)

Games like SHOOPER NOVA

The middle of these games

≈ 13k–45k copies

≈ $29k–$191k after Steam's cut

from ~771 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Necrosmith 2 at ≈ 38k–61k copies, ≈ $83k–$222k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 325 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 127 to 840.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Rogue-lite, priced around $8.
The era: 6 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 70 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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