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How many copies did Nuts!: The Battle of the Bulge sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut
from 47 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Nuts!: The Battle of the Bulge and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nuts!: The Battle of the Bulge's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.4M
best case 4.8M (Tabletop Simulator)
Games like Nuts!: The Battle of the Bulge

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–2.4M copies

≈ $7.7M–$23.2M after Steam's cut

from ~41k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Tabletop Simulator at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $20.0M–$53.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 49 to 8k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Card Game (7 of 8) and Board Game (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Tabletop + Board Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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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