How much revenue did Niffelheim make?

$391k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Niffelheim sell?

Q: How many copies did Niffelheim sell?

71k to 115k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 71k–115k; $391k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $710k–$1.6M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Niffelheim out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Niffelheim's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30.7M–73.9M

best case 128.9M (Terraria)

Games like Niffelheim

The middle of these games

≈ 30.7M–73.9M copies

≈ $204.2M–$588.1M after Steam's cut

from ~1.1M reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Terraria at ≈ 98.2M–159.6M copies, ≈ $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 131k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Crafting (6 of 8) and Survival (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 3 of your 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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