How much revenue did No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape sell?

Q: How many copies did No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 22 reviews (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 No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 445k–1.1M

best case 9.8M (RimWorld)

Games like No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape

The middle of these games

≈ 445k–1.1M copies

≈ $4.0M–$10.1M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: RimWorld at ≈ 7.5M–12.2M copies, ≈ $72.0M–$193.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Colony Sim (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Management + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2026, and 1 of your 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 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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