How much revenue did Nurikabe World make?

$14k–$38k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nurikabe World sell?

Q: How many copies did Nurikabe World sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 206 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$58k before Steam's cut; from 206 reviews (Very 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 Nurikabe World and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nurikabe World's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 477k–768k

best case 1.5M (We Were Here)

Games like Nurikabe World

A typical game among these

≈ 477k–768k copies

≈ $2.8M–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: We Were Here at ≈ 1.1M–1.9M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 893 reviews in their first month; the range was 321 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Escape Room.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, and none of them 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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