How much revenue did NEKOTO make?

$654–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NEKOTO sell?

Q: How many copies did NEKOTO sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $654–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 16 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 NEKOTO and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NEKOTO's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 277–976k

best case 4.2M (Cult of the Lamb)

Games like NEKOTO

A typical game among these

≈ 277–976k copies

≈ $1k–$7.0M after Steam's cut

from ~95 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cult of the Lamb at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies, ≈ $22.2M–$59.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 32 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 24k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
When they shipped: 5 of the 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 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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