How much revenue did Nordhold make?

$462k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nordhold sell?

Q: How many copies did Nordhold sell?

84k to 136k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 84k–136k; $462k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $839k–$1.9M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Nordhold and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nordhold's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–61k

best case 81k (Drill Core)

Games like Nordhold

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–61k copies

≈ $219k–$364k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Drill Core at ≈ 61k–100k copies, ≈ $338k–$909k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 480 reviews in their first month; the range was 279 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Rogue-lite, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 7 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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