How much revenue did Nordhold make?

$455k–$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?

83k to 134k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 83k–134k; $455k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $827k–$1.9M before the cut; from 3k 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 Nordhold out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nordhold's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–60k

best case 80k (Drill Core)

Games like Nordhold

The middle of these games

≈ 33k–60k copies

≈ $217k–$358k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Drill Core at ≈ 61k–99k copies, ≈ $335k–$901k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 481 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 279 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Rogue-lite, priced around $20.
The era: 7 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 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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