How much revenue did Nova-111 make?

$12k–$33k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nova-111 sell?

Q: How many copies did Nova-111 sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 183 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $12k–$33k after Steam's cut $22k–$51k before Steam's cut; from 183 reviews (Mostly 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 Nova-111 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nova-111's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 799k–1.6M

best case 12.4M (Deep Rock Galactic)

Games like Nova-111

A typical game among these

≈ 799k–1.6M copies

≈ $5.4M–$7.9M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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: Deep Rock Galactic at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, and 1 of the 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 79 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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