How much revenue did Nation Red make?

$145k–$390k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nation Red sell?

Q: How many copies did Nation Red sell?

176k to 287k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 176k–287k; $145k–$390k after Steam's cut $264k–$600k 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 Nation Red and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nation Red's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–71k

best case 88.0M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Nation Red

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–71k copies

≈ $98k–$355k 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 67.0M–108.9M copies, ≈ $184.1M–$495.0M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 36 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (8 of 8) and Zombies (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Multiplayer + FPS; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, and 2 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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