How much revenue did The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game make?

$1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game sell?

Q: How many copies did The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game sell?

280k to 456k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 280k–456k; $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–15.5M

best case 56.3M (Warframe)

Games like The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game

A typical game among these

≈ 4.4M–15.5M copies

≈ $44.7M–$81.9M after Steam's cut

from ~133k 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 Third Person (3 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: Warframe at ≈ 42.9M–69.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Third Person (3 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2000 to 2022, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $20.8M–$55.8M after Steam's cut $37.8M–$85.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	91k reviews Very Positive	AnimeFighting
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition 2019	Est. copies ≈ 10.3M–16.7M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $169.4M–$455.5M after Steam's cut $308.0M–$700.8M before Steam's cut	$59.99	357k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Souls-likeDifficult
Katana ZERO 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $9.0M–$24.3M after Steam's cut $16.4M–$37.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsAction
METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE 2014	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $41.1M–$110.6M after Steam's cut $74.8M–$170.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	89k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great SoundtrackHack and Slash
MONSTER HUNTER RISE 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut $63.0M–$143.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	127k reviews Very Positive	ActionHunting
Counter-Strike 2000	Est. copies ≈ 16.6M–26.9M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $45.5M–$122.3M after Steam's cut $82.7M–$188.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	262k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionFPS
Warframe 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.9M–69.7M 5.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	678k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayAction RPG
Stumble Guys 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	139k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayBattle Royale