How much revenue did Nidhogg 2 make?

$189k–$509k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nidhogg 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Nidhogg 2 sell?

46k to 75k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 46k–75k; $189k–$509k after Steam's cut $344k–$783k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Nidhogg 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nidhogg 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.6M–21.5M

best case 29.9M (Among Us)

Games like Nidhogg 2

A typical game among these

≈ 5.6M–21.5M copies

≈ $26.6M–$65.2M after Steam's cut

from ~184k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (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: Among Us at ≈ 22.8M–37.0M copies, ≈ $31.3M–$84.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and 2D Fighter (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Social Deduction + Space, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2018, 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 38 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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