How much revenue did Zero Escape: The Nonary Games make?

$2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Zero Escape: The Nonary Games sell?

Q: How many copies did Zero Escape: The Nonary Games sell?

256k to 415k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 256k–415k; $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.8M–$8.7M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 Zero Escape: The Nonary Games and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Zero Escape: The Nonary Games's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.1M

best case 3.3M (Mirror)

Games like Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–2.1M copies

≈ $6.4M–$18.1M after Steam's cut

from ~40k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Mirror at ≈ 2.6M–4.1M copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sexual Content + Nudity, priced around $2. The breakout hits carry Hentai + NSFW + Female Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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