How much revenue did NEO Impossible Bosses make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NEO Impossible Bosses sell?

Q: How many copies did NEO Impossible Bosses sell?

456 to 741 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 456–741; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 15 reviews (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 NEO Impossible Bosses and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NEO Impossible Bosses's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.8M–6.8M

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like NEO Impossible Bosses

A typical game among these

≈ 5.8M–6.8M copies

≈ $42.9M–$51.0M after Steam's cut

from ~158k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Simulation (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: The Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 157 reviews in their first month; the range was 16 to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (4 of 8) and Sandbox (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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 52 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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