How much revenue did NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION make?

$1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION sell?

Q: How many copies did NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION sell?

194k to 315k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 194k–315k; $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.6M before Steam's cut; from 5k reviews (Mixed)

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 NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–211k

best case 362k (Returnal™)

Games like NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–211k copies

≈ $152k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Returnal™ at ≈ 276k–448k copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 128 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Hack and Slash (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Rogue-like, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2026, and 3 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 38 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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