How much revenue did Planet Nomads make?

Planet Nomads is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Planet Nomads sell?

Q: How many copies did Planet Nomads sell?

59k to 95k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 59k–95k; from 2k 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 Planet Nomads and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Planet Nomads's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 89k–440k

best case 13.9M (R.E.P.O.)

Games like Planet Nomads

A typical game among these

≈ 89k–440k copies

≈ $147k–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Sci-fi (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: R.E.P.O. at ≈ 10.6M–17.2M copies, ≈ $29.1M–$78.2M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 110 to 67k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (4 of 8) and Physics (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Comedy, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Comedy + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 1 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 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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Phantom Brigade 2023	Est. copies ≈ 114k–186k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $942k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based TacticsTactical RPG
Dome Keeper 2022	Est. copies ≈ 558k–906k 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.4M before Steam's cut	$17.99	22k reviews Very Positive	SingleplayerPost-apocalyptic
ΔV: Rings of Saturn 2023	Est. copies ≈ 86k–140k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $237k–$637k after Steam's cut $431k–$980k before Steam's cut	$9.99	3k reviews Very Positive	SpaceSci-fi
R.E.P.O. 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10.6M–17.2M 94x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut $52.9M–$120.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	427k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Beyond Gravity 2014	Est. copies ≈ 50k–81k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$112k before Steam's cut	$1.99	887 reviews Very Positive	CasualAction
Hardspace: Shipbreaker 2022	Est. copies ≈ 557k–905k 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.4M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.2M before Steam's cut	$34.99	22k reviews Very Positive	SpaceSci-fi
Combots 2021	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $20k–$54k after Steam's cut $37k–$84k before Steam's cut	$4.99	594 reviews Very Positive	IndieVR
SCP: Labrat 2022	Est. copies ≈ 112k–182k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Very Positive	HorrorMultiplayer