How much revenue did The End Is Nigh make?

$495k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The End Is Nigh sell?

Q: How many copies did The End Is Nigh sell?

120k to 195k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 120k–195k; $495k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $901k–$2.0M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The End Is Nigh out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The End Is Nigh's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 48.1M–91.4M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like The End Is Nigh

The middle of these games

≈ 48.1M–91.4M copies

≈ $269.5M–$550.0M after Steam's cut

from ~1.0M reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (3 of 8) and Sandbox (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Shooter + Battle Royale + FPS; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2020, 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 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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