How much revenue did Never Give Up make?

$23k–$61k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Never Give Up sell?

Q: How many copies did Never Give Up sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 191 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $23k–$61k after Steam's cut $41k–$94k before Steam's cut; from 191 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 Never Give Up and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Never Give Up's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–729k

best case 769k (Neon Abyss)

Games like Never Give Up

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–729k copies

≈ $37k–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Neon Abyss at ≈ 586k–952k copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 331 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (8 of 8) and Replay Value (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Platformer, priced around $31.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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Super House of Dead Ninjas 2013	Est. copies ≈ 109k–177k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $600k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeAction
Spelunky 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 545k–886k 9.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	22k reviews Very Positive	Platformer2D Platformer
Spelunky 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M 7.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.7M after Steam's cut $7.9M–$18.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	17k reviews Very Positive	Platformer Rogue-like
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Fury Unleashed 2020	Est. copies ≈ 72k–118k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $398k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $724k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Replay ValueRogue-like
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Neon Abyss 2020	Est. copies ≈ 586k–952k 10x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.6M after Steam's cut $9.2M–$21.0M before Steam's cut	$31.49	24k reviews Very Positive	Rogue-like Platformer
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