How much revenue did Nyan Cat: Lost In Space make?

$137k–$369k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nyan Cat: Lost In Space sell?

Q: How many copies did Nyan Cat: Lost In Space sell?

100k to 162k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 100k–162k; $137k–$369k after Steam's cut $249k–$567k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Nyan Cat: Lost In Space and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nyan Cat: Lost In Space's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–3.1M

best case 5.4M (BattleBlock Theater®)

Games like Nyan Cat: Lost In Space

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–3.1M copies

≈ $7.9M–$20.7M after Steam's cut

from ~39k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: BattleBlock Theater® at ≈ 4.1M–6.6M copies, ≈ $16.8M–$45.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 8k reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (5 of 8) and Cats (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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